David Kretzmer (Hebrew: דוד קרצמר; born 4 November 1943) is an Israeli expert in international and constitutional law.
He worked as a law clerk to Justice Zvi Berinson at the Supreme Court of Israel from 1966 to 1967, and with the firm of Yigal Arnon in Jerusalem until 1968, when he was admitted to the Israeli Bar.
He was teaching assistant to Aharon Barak and became part-time teacher at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University in 1969 and worked as an advocate with D.M.
Schlosberg, Advocates in Tel-Aviv until 1972, when he entered Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Canada,[3] where he obtained a Doctor of Laws in 1975 with a dissertation about Aims and functions of the tort system of loss allocation.
[7] Kretzmer was a founding member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in 1972 and served as chairperson on its executive board.