A fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Moshe Halbertal has a doctorate in Jewish Thought from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches.
Currently the Gruss Professor at New York University School of Law, Moshe previously served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as a fellow in Harvard University’s Society of Fellows.
Moshe’s extensive list of publications includes Idolatry, which he co-authored with Avishai Margalit (Harvard University Press, 1998), People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority (Harvard University Press, 1997) and Between Torah and Wisdom: Menachem ha-Meiri and the Maimonidean Halachists of Provence (Magnes Press, 2000, Hebrew),
Moshe is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild Foundation and the Goldstein-Goren Book Award for the best book in Jewish thought for the years 1997-2000.