Visiting Scholar

Hadar Aviram

Criminal Justice, Civil Rights, Jewish Law

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...

Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg

Law

Summer 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Law and Incoming Associate Dean for International Affairs at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law

Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg is a Summer 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Israeli Criminal Law Association. She is also the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Excellence in Teaching Award for 2024.

Professor Dancig-Rosenberg specializes in criminal law and procedure, with a focus on the...

Lihi Lahat

Public Administration and Policy

Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Sapir Academic College; Affiliate Associate Professor of Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University

Lihi Lahat is a Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. She holds a BA in political science, an MA cum laude in public policy, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Tel Aviv University, where her dissertation focused on policymakers' perceptions of poverty. From 2018 to 2021, she advised the Israeli Minister of...

Moria Paz

Law

Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco

Moria Paz is a Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. Moria Paz critically investigates the place of minorities, migrants, and refugees within legal orders (international and national) that are fundamentally rooted in state sovereignty. Her scholarship undertakes an inquiry into the on-the-ground operation of human rights law and international law, and their intersection with national law. Her goal is to further understand and...

Amit Schejter

Communications

Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Amit Schejter is a 2024-2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar. Amit Schejter’s research examines inequality in communication as he focuses on applying the capabilities approach to communication policy. More recently he is engaged in examining the right to communicate and the challenges it faces in Israel. Schejter has authored or edited eight books and over 80 journal articles, law reviews, and book chapters in five languages...