Erez Aloni

Erez Aloni’s scholarship examines how the law of family and intimacy both reflects and reshapes broader legal and social orders. He is particularly interested in family law’s exceptional position within private law and in the distributive consequences of regulating marriage, cohabitation, and surrogacy. His work highlights the paradoxes of recognition: how legal reforms designed to promote equality can also entrench hierarchy and produce new forms of disadvantage.

Aloni serves on the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law and has been Faculty Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Family Law since 2017. He is also a Contributing Editor in the Equality Section of Jotwell. In addition to publishing in scholarly law journals and edited collections, he has written op-eds for the LA Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Vancouver Sun, and he is a frequent source of expert commentary in media.

At the Peter A. Allard School of Law, Aloni teaches contracts, family law, and law and sexuality. His dedication to teaching excellence was recognized with the George Curtis Memorial Award in 2021, and his research achievements with the Killam Faculty Research Fellowship in 2023.

Earlier in his career, he was a Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights and Columbia Law School, and an Assistant Professor at Whittier Law School in California. He earned his LL.M. and S.J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he also taught a course on law and sexuality. Aloni has taught as a visiting professor at Reichman University’s Radzyner Law School, the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, and the College of Law, National Taiwan University. 

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