Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco
Hadar Aviram is a Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. Her areas of expertise are criminal justice, civil rights, law and politics, corrections, and social movements, and her scholarship uses socio-legal perspectives and methodologies. Professor Aviram holds both a LL.B. and M.A. degree in criminology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is Thomas E. Miller '73 Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco. Professor Aviram also holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she was a Fulbright Fellow and Regents Intern. Professor Aviram currently is a member of both the California and Israel Bars. Among her many publications are the books Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (2015); Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole (2020); and Fester: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster (2024). Professor Aviram is expanding her expertise to Jewish Studies and Jewish Law. She is a rabbinical student at the International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism and a graduate student at the Graduate Theological Union. Professor Aviram has served as President of the Western Society of Criminology, a Trustee of the Law and Society Association, and the Book Review Editor of Law & Society Review, and is frequently featured in national and international media outlets on politics, immigration, and criminal justice policy.
