Biography

Guy Rubinstein joined the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2025. He teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He received his S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was also a Clark Byse Fellow and John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He holds an LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Professor Rubinstein served as an Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and he is currently an Associate at the Center.

Professor Rubinstein’s research focuses on judicial remedies for rights violations in the criminal process. In his work, Professor Rubinstein explores how such remedies shape professional decisions made by various actors in the criminal justice system, including judges, prosecutors, and police officers. Professor Rubinstein’s research and teaching interests also include critical approaches to criminal justice (especially penal abolitionism and penal minimalism), evidence, and anticorruption. His publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and Wisconsin Law Review, among others. His work has been cited in multiple judicial opinions, including by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois and the Supreme Court of Israel. Professor Rubinstein served as a Law Clerk and Senior Law Clerk for Justice Meni Mazuz of the Supreme Court of Israel and as a Fair and Just Prosecution Summer Fellow at the Suffolk County (MA) District Attorney’s Office.

Publications

Law Review Articles

Remedying Selective Enforcement, 93 George Washington Law Review 789 (2025). HeinOnline | SSRN

Minimalist Criminal Courts, 101 Washington University Law Review 1955 (2024) (with Yoav Sapir). HeinOnline | SSRN

The Prosecutor-Oriented Exclusionary Rule, 65 Boston College Law Review 1755 (2024). HeinOnline | SSRN

Selective Prosecution, Selective Enforcement, and Remedial Vagueness, 2022 Wisconsin Law Review 825 (2022). HeinOnline | SSRN

Book Chapters

The Influence of Proportionality in Private Law on Remedies in American Constitutional Criminal Procedure, in Proportionality in Private Law 201 (Franz Bauer & Ben Köhler eds., 2023). Link

Books, Law Review Articles, and Book Chapters in Hebrew

Meni Mazuz Book (Yoram Rabin, Yaniv Vaki, Alon Rodas & Guy Rubinstein eds., forthcoming 2025) (co-editor).

From Yissacharov to a Statutory Exclusionary Rule: What Has Changed Following the Enactment of Section 56A of the Evidence Ordinance?, in Meni Mazuz Book _ (Yoram Rabin, Yaniv Vaki, Alon Rodas & Guy Rubinstein eds., forthcoming 2025) (with Yoav Sapir). SSRN.

Yissacharov in Action: On the Merits of the Israeli Flexible Exclusionary Rule and Its Contribution to the Protection of Individual Rights, 10 Tel Aviv University Journal of Law & Social Change 333 (2019) (with Yoav Sapir). SSRN

The Exclusionary Rule Applied to Illegally Obtained Evidence from Witnesses, 42 Tel Aviv University Law Review Forum 5 (2019) (with Moshe Serogovich). SSRN

Links

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