Alex Stein

Alex Stein (; born 27 October 1957) is an Israeli jurist who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel since 2018. He is considered to be a conservative justice and one of the most prominent legal scholars in Israel.

Early life and education Alex Stein was born to a Jewish family in Chișinău, Soviet Union in 1957. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973. He completed his high school studies at the Leo Baeck School in Haifa, and was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1976, serving in the C4I Corps. He participated in Operation Litani and the 1982 Lebanon War.

After being discharged, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a Bachelor of Laws in 1983 and a Master of Laws in 1987. He later studied at University College London and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in law from the University of London in 1990. He clerked for Rachel Sukar, head of the Criminal Litigation Department in the Attorney General's Office, from 1982 to 1983, then for Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon from 1983 to 1984.

Academic and legal career Stein was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 1984, and worked as an attorney with two law firms in Jerusalem from 1984 to 1987, specializing in commercial litigation. He taught at Brooklyn Law School from 2016 to 2018. He has authored four books, two of which are widely recognized as pioneering contributions to the fields of tort law and evidence. With over eighty published articles—many featured in the world’s foremost academic journals—his scholarship spans torts, evidence, medical malpractice, and the economic analysis of law. His expertise has earned him invitations to speak at academic conferences across the globe, and his insights have been cited by prominent international media outlets, including The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Nature. His appointment received praise by Nick Allard, President and Dean of Brooklyn Law School who said “Stein is one of the world’s brilliant legal minds."

Personal life Stein is married to Shirley Blaier-Stein, an author, an attorney and autism rights activist and is a father of five. One of his children has special needs. He is a chess enthusiast, having been a teenage chess champion in the Soviet Union and an arbitrator in the Israeli Chess Federation.

Stein had a Facebook account where he had criticized the Israeli Supreme Court over judicial activism, which he deleted when he became a Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court.