Radzyner Law School

Background

Radzyner Law School at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, was established in 1994 by Prof. Uriel Reichman with the help of Dr. Harry L. Radzyner, is the Interdisciplinary Center’s founding school. The first class of the combined Law and Business Program completed its studies in 1998. Until 2016, approximately 7,000 graduates completed their studies at Radzyner Law School.

International collaborations

Radzyner Law School maintains international collaborations in several levels: each year renowned visiting professors from some of the foremost law schools in the world teach legal courses in English at the school; the students at the school participate in various international activities throughout their studies, such as student exchange programs, joint seminars with foreign law schools and more. In addition, Radzyner Law School is the only Israeli law school that’s a founding member in the Law Schools Global League. The Law Schools Global League is an alliance between over 20 leading law schools from across the globe, promoting collaborations in studies and research in light of globalization and its impact on the legal world.

Undergraduate degree

Radzyner Law School offers several dual–degrees programs: Law and Business, Law and Government and Law and Psychology. In addition, the school offers a special program of Law with a direct route to M.A. in Financial Economics, LL.B in Law with a direct route to a MBA in Business Administration, LL.B. in Law with a direct route to M.A. in Government and the Honors program for outstanding students. The Law and Business program grants the students a dual degree: LL.B in Law and B.A in Business Administration. Students on the program have a choice of majoring in one of the following: Marketing; Finance; Internet and Network Studies; Real Estate or International Business Law. The Law and Government program grants the students a dual degree: LL.B in Law and B.A in Government. Students on the program have a choice of majoring in one of the following majors offered by Lauder School of Government: Diplomacy and Strategy; Public Administration and Leadership; Security and Terrorism; Middle East and International Conflict Resolution; The Law and Psychology program grants students a dual degree: LL.B. in Law and B.A. in Psychology. Students on this program focus on aspects relevant to both disciplines, such as decision making, social values and norms, psychological issues in family law, legal issues in clinical psychology and more. The Law and Financial Economics program grants the students an Undergraduate LL.B. in Law and a Graduate M.A. in Financial Economics within 4 years. The M.A. in Financial Economics program will be taught in English. Students will receive training in both fields, with emphasis on the economic-financial field. In addition to legal tools, the Program provides quantitative, theoretical and practical tools in the fields of economics, finance and risk-management. The Law and MBA program grants students an undergraduate LL.B in Law and graduate program in business administration (MBA) within 4 years. The MBA will be taught in English during 5 mini-semesters, and will focus on innovation and entrepreneurship with an emphasis on unique challenges and coping with growing companies. The Law and M.A in government program grants the students an Undergraduate LL.B. in Law and a Graduate M.A. in Government within 4 years. The M.A program will be taught in English and includes two specializations for student's choice: Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security and Diplomacy and Conflict.

Radzyner Law School has developed a legal clinics program in which law students volunteer in one of nearly 20 legal aid clinics and provide legal assistance to individuals in need and disempowered groups. The various clinics at Radzyner Law School work in collaboration with public institutions, non-profit organizations, private law firms, government offices and more.

Graduate degree

Radzyner Law School offers a graduate program in law (LL.M.), with a specialization in business law. In addition, the school offers a research LL.M. program for outstanding students, including a thesis track. Students admitted to the program receive a full scholarship.

Deans

Law & Business Journal

The Law & Business Journal was founded in 2004 and is Radzyner Law School's law journal. The journal is published annually in two volumes: the first is a collection of articles dealing with a variety of topics in the legal field, and the second is a collection of legal articles in one or several specific fields, selected from the articles that were presented in conferences held by the journal.

In addition, the journal manages a website that offers readers free access to the online versions of the articles published in the journal in full text, as well as news updates from the legal world and regular updates on events and conferences sponsored by Radzyner Law School.

Bar Tests

In recent years, graduates students from the Radzyner Law School (RLS) ranked in the top positions among Israel's law schools, and ranked constantly first amongst private law schools. The high rankings of the RLS graduates - they even topped the ranking of the 2013 fall tests - placed the school as one of the top law school in the country. In the fall of 2014, the bar association decided to make the test harder to raise the admission level required to enter the profession, and indeed, only 63% of those who took the test managed to pass it, a significant setback from the more usual 70%-80% of past years. Three law school managed to keep very high percentage of admitted students, namely Tel Aviv University Law (97%), The Hebrew University Law (96%), and the IDC Radzyner LS (95%). the number of graduates from RLS who took the test was almost as high as the number of Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University combined. This test can be seen as the test that saw the emergence of "The Big Three" law schools of Israel.

Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies

Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies at the Radzyner Law School at IDC, was established by the generous donation from the Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund, and is broadly interested in looking at the ethical, legal and social implications of new and emerging technologies. The Institute, directed by Dr. Dov Greenbaum, is focused on the promotion of innovation and technology, and aims to provide background and directions regarding new and emerging technologies such as policy, laws, regulations and the like that are designed to promote rather than hinder new innovation. The Institute holds symposiums, roundtable and conferences with local and international experts on areas of interest to the Institute. Furthermore, the institute has a unique program, the Zvi Meitar Emerging Technologies program, which provides eighteen exceptional students from all the IDC schools an opportunity to go through academic training in the field of science and technology.