Dr. Joseph E. David has held many positions which include a sub-faculty associate member, senior lecturer, at Sapir Academic College and the Hebrew University, and a research fellow at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His interests are law and religion, comparative jurisprudence, legal theory and legal history. His work has also focused on perceptions of kinship and incest in medieval thought (mainly within the Karaite and the Eastern Churches legal writings). His publications include The State Rabbinate: Election, Separation and Freedom of Expression (Israel Democracy Institute Press 2000) (Hebrew), The Family and the Political: The Political Meaning of the Family in a Liberal Society (Israel Democracy Institute 2012) (Hebrew), Toleration Within Judaism (with coauthors Martin Goodman, Corinna Kaiser, and Simon Levis-Sullam) (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 2013) (English), and Between Logos and Nomos – Law and Theology in Medieval Jewish Thought (Mohr Siebeck Verlag forthcoming) (English).