Professor Netta Barak-Corren will walk us through the current proposals to reshape Israel’s judiciary, helping us to understand the shortcomings and strengths of Israel’s system. Join us in-person or on Zoom.
Professor Netta Barak-Corren is a legal scholar and cognitive scientist, focusing on empirical and behavioral analysis of constitutional and public law, with a particular interest in conflicts of rights and the interaction between law and religion and law and social norms. Most of her research is geared towards developing an empirical approach to constitutional law, and she recently won an ERC Starting grant to develop this new approach.
She received her LL.B. in Law and B.A. in Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University. Netta then clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish, and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard, graduating in 2016.
Currently, she is a Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. In the current academic year, she is the David R. Greenbaum and Laureine Knight Greenbaum Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Chicago Law School (Fall 2022), a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at Edmund & Lily Safra Center for Ethics in Harvard. Learn more on her website: https://nettabarakcorren.org/.
