About

I am a legal scholar and cognitive scientist, focusing on empirical and behavioral analysis of constitutional, public, and international law, and the intricate interactions between law and society. 

Most of my research is geared towards developing an empirical approach to constitutional law and I am heading an ERC Starting Grant to develop this new approach. Check out EmpiriCon’s new website!

Currently, I am the Haim H. Cohn Chair in Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality.

I am also the inaugural ERC Ambassador to Israel, an Elected Member of Israel Young Academy and a Nootbaar Religious Freedom Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Law. Previously, I taught at Chicago Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at Edmund & Lily Safra Center for Ethics in Harvard; and Law, Ethics, and Public Policy Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, cross-affiliated with the Law Group at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).

I received my LL.B. in Law and B.A. in Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University (Valedictorian and three-time recipient of the Albert Einstein and Rector awards).  I then clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish, and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard, graduating in 2016.

I am grateful for the support of grants from the Israel Science Foundation, Israeli Democracy Institute, Barak Center for Interdisciplinary Legal Research, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Minerva Center for Human Rights, the Sinclair Kennedy Fellowship, Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Next Generation Grant and Harvard’s Interfaculty Initiative on Mind, Brain, and Behavior, among others.

Honors and Awards include the Kalachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science, elected member of the Israeli Young Academy, the S.Z. Cheshin Young Scholar Award for Academic Excellence in Law, the Gorni Prize for an Outstanding Young Scholar in Public Law, the Birk Prize for Excellence in Legal Research, the Howard Raiffa Best Paper Award, the Fisher-Sander Best Paper Award, the Menachem Goldberg Best Paper Award, and Stanford’s International Junior Faculty Forum.

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If you’re here to learn about the proposal to form a Constituent Assembly to solve Israel’s constitutional crisis, you’re welcome to read all about it in our dedicated website (and listen to interviews, read media coverage, etc.). If you’re here to read my scholarship about the crisis or listen to one of the interviews or talks I gave about this subject, please go to the Media and Public Writing section of my website.

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Interested in finding out more about my research? Check out the Media and Public Writing section for interviews, media coverage, and public writing.

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