Dr. Yosef Solomon
CV
Education
Ph.D. Information Science, Bar-Ilan University.
LL.M- Laws, Bar Ilan University.
LL.B- Laws, The College of Management [Magna cum Laude].
B.A- Finance, The College of Management [Magna cum Laude].
Dr Yosef Solomon is a licensed Israeli lawyer (with extensive expertise in a variety of legal roles in the public, corporate, and civic sectors) and an adjunct lecturer and researcher at the Information Science department, Bar-Ilan University.
His scholarly research interests include Human information behaviour; Serendipity, information encountering and adjacent possibilities; Legal informatics, and information practices within the legal profession; Information disruptions, brilliant failures and reflective learning in liberal professionals' information work; Information studies in the arts and popular culture (Info. Humanities); and Empirical legal research on decision making under imperfect information and uncertainty. Dr Solomon has published several articles on these topics in high-standing peer-reviewed journals, and presented his work at various international conferences. He is internationally recognized for his original, thought-provoking research in the areas of legal information practices, information disruptions and ‘brilliant failures’ in liberal professionals' information work.
Dr Solomon is also a member of the Serendipity Society, CILIP and ASIS&T (where he served as the European Chapter's representative for Israel until 2021).
Main Research Topics
- Human Information Behavior
- Reflective work-based information-work and learning.
- Serendipity, Information Encountering, and Adjacent Possibilities
- Information Studies in the Arts and Popular Culture (Info. Humanities)
- Legal Informatics, and Information Practices within the Legal Profession
- Information Disruptions and Brilliant Failures in Liberal Professionals' Information Work
- Informational para-diplomacy (Information-related initiatives of local governments in the international arena).
Membership in Professional Societies
- Israel Bar Association (IBA)
- The Serendipity Society (SerSoc) [link]
- Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) European Chapter
Research
My scholarly areas of research are:
- Human Information Behavior
- Reflective work-based information-work and learning
- Serendipity, Information Encountering, and Adjacent Possibilities
- Information Studies in the Arts and Popular Culture (Info. Humanities)
- Legal Informatics, and Information Practices within the Legal Profession
- Information Disruptions and Brilliant Failures in Liberal Professionals' Information Work
- Informational para-diplomacy (Information-related initiatives of local governments in the international arena).
Courses
Course no. 35-859: Legal Informatics
Course no. 35-442: Introduction to Human Information Behavior
Publications
- Solomon, Y. (2024). A failure in the information-work of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs: A call for an analysis of the complaints about the quality of work of social workers for legal proceedings. The Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management Quarterly, 2024(1), 81-94. [link] [Hebrew]
- Solomon, Y. (2023). Information disruptions and disruptive information sources in the practice of law: Obstacles in gathering information, through an Israeli lens. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 55(3), 671-680. DOI: 10.1177/09610006221097975 [link]
- Solomon, Y., & Bronstein, J. (2022). The information-gathering practice of liberal professionals in a workplace setting: More than just seeking information. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(1), 54-68. DOI: 10.1177/0961000621992810 [link].
- Bronstein, J., & Solomon, Y. (2021). Exploring the information practices of lawyers. Journal of Documentation, 77(4), 1003–1021. DOI: 10.1108/JD-10-2020-0165 [link]
- Solomon, Y. (2020). Information encountering at the opera: What Donizetti and Romani’s opera buffa L’elisir d’amore can teach us about pseudo-serendipity in human information behaviour. LIBRI, 70(3), 181-195. DOI: 10.1515/libri-2018-0105 [link] [The paper won 2021 BIU President's and Rector's Prize for Scholarly Published Article]
- Solomon, Y. (2019). Legal information seeking behaviour of Israeli advocates: A mixed-method research [PhD Thesis] [link]
- Solomon, Y., & Bronstein, J. (2018, March). Information serendipity, pseudo-serendipity, zemblanity, disruptive discovery and nemorinity: Revisiting Donizetti's and Romani's opera buffa L'elisir d'amore. Poster session presented at iConference 2018, Sheffield, UK. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24232.67848 [link1] [link2] [link3]
- Solomon, Y. (2017). Layered humor and information serendipity in Eretz Nehederet’s musical parody: ‘A Sweetheart from Life’. Humor Mekuvan: A Research Journal in Humor Studies, 8, 50-67 [Hebrew] [link1] [link2 - see p. 144]
- Solomon, Y. (2017). 'A mule blind of the right eye': Time has come to educate for information serendipity. BeMa'agalei Hinuch (Circles of Education) Journal: Research, Theory and Creativity, 7, 78-86. [Hebrew] [link]
- Solomon, Y. (2016). Temporal aspects of info-serendipity. Temporalités - Revue de Sciences Sociales et Humaines, 24, paper 3523. DOI: 10.4000/temporalites.3523 [link]
- Solomon, Y., & Bronstein, J. (2016). Serendipity in legal information-seeking behavior: Chance encounters of family-law advocates with court rulings, Aslib Journal of Information Management, 68(1), 112-134. DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-04-2015-0056 [link]
- Solomon, Y. (2016). Librarians in flux: The new serendipity agents. Paper presented at #VisDom 2016, Potsdam, Germany (May 27-28, 2016), 3 pp. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3013.2729 [link].
- Solomon, Y. (2016). Serendipity in legal information-seeking behavior. Video to the Movie Meets Science 2016, ASIS&T ESC. [link]
Media
Email: Yosef.Solomon@biu.ac.il
Twitter: @YSolomon_Adv
Mobile: (+972) 52.323.6556
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yosef_Solomon2
Academia.edu: https://biu.academia.edu/YosefSolomonAdvocate
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9508-1127
Mailing Address:
Department of Information Science
Bar-Ilan University
Max & Anna Webb Street
Ramat-Gan, Israel 5290002
Press photos: Portrait 1 (Photographer credit: Noam Feiner) | Portrait 2 (Photographer credit: Noam Feiner) | Academic Regalia (credit: Yosef Solomon)
Op-ed: The Jerusalem Post (July 6, 2022), The Jerusalem Post (October 9, 2024), The Jerusalem Post (October 29, 2024), Maariv Online (Hebrew) (January 1, 2025), The Jerusalem Post (January 25, 2026)
Last Updated Date : 03/02/2026
