Professor Moshe Halbertal received his PhD from The Hebrew University in 1989. From 1988 to 1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.  Professor Halbertal served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School. He is currently a professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at The Hebrew University and the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School. He is the author of many books, including Idolatry (co-authored with  Avishai  Margalit,  1992);  People  of  the  Book:  Canon,  Meaning,  and  Authority (1997), both published by Harvard University Press; Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Tradition and its Philosophical Implications (2007); On Sacrifice (2012); Maimonides: Life and Thought (2013), published by Princeton University Press. Professor Halbertal was the recipient of the Goldstein-Goren Book Award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997 to 2000. He was named a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2010). In 2015, he delivered the University of Chicago Law School Dewey Lecture on “Three Concepts of Human Dignity.”