Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor, Legal Studies Department, UC Berkeley; Associate Professor and Former Dean, Faculty of Law, Academic College of Law and Science
Ayelet Blecher-Prigat is a Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor in the Legal Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She is a Professor of Law at the College of Law & Science in Israel, where she served as Dean of the Law School from 2019 to 2025. Her scholarship examines the legal construction of family, identity, and intergenerational ties, addressing issues such as intimate adult relationships, parentage, children’s rights, privacy, and the role of religion in shaping family law. Her work has been published in leading journals in Israel and internationally and is widely cited.
In addition to her academic work, she occasionally litigates precedent-setting cases before Israeli courts, most recently successfully representing non-genetic parents in a high-profile embryo mix-up case before the Israeli Supreme Court. Professor Blecher-Prigat holds a J.S.D. and an LL.M. (Kent Scholar) from Columbia Law School and an LL.B. (Magna Cum Laude) from Tel Aviv University. Before entering academia, she clerked for Justice Tova Strasberg-Cohen of the Israeli Supreme Court.
Courses
Comparative Constitutional Law: The Case of Israel
