ZEEV W. FALK (11 May 1923 - 19 September 1998) studied Jewish hit tory, Talmud, and international relations in the Faculty of the Humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1949 to 1952. completing his Ph.D. in 1959. He spent three years in private legal practice and then served as legal advisor to the Israel Ministry of Welfare from 1955 to 1961 and as legal advisor to the Ministry of the Interior from 1960 to 1965.
Professor Falk was on the Faculty of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem in various academic capacities from 1952 to 1988. He also taught as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tel Aviv from 1964 to 1969. He founded the Jewish law yearbook Diné Israel and he edited the journal Siah Meisharim. In addition, he authored twelve books as well as numerous scholarly articles on biblical research, the Talmud, Jewish law and history, rabbinical literature and philosophy, and religious poetry.
A popular and personable lecturer, he enjoyed several appointments as a visiting professor at several institutions of higher learning in the United States (Temple University, University of California at Berkeley, New York University, Hamline University), as well as others in Germany, Brazil, and Russia. His driving mission was to understand and communicate the intersections between law and religion with emphasis on the Jewish experience.