"Menachem Elon" served as a justice on the Israeli Supreme court from 1977 to 1993 and its deputy president 1988-1993. He has been a guest lecturer at Oxford University, University College of London, and visiting professor at Harvard University's law school. In 1993 he was elected president of the World Union of Jewish Studies and he is a member of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law. He has been the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.