A Conversation with Justice Daphne Barak-Erez

Justice Daphne Barak-Erez joins us for an informal conversation about the Israeli Supreme Court's operations, decisions, and role in Israeli government and society with ISCP Co-Director Michael Herz.

Justice Barak-Erez has been a member of the court since 2012. She earned an LL.B. degree in 1987 and an LL.M. degree in 1989, both summa cum laude, and a J.S.D. degree, receiving a Colton Fellowship, in 1992, all from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Between 1987 and 1990, she served in the Israel Defense Force as a legal officer in the Military Advocate General Office, and immediately afterwards started her academic career, mostly at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, focusing on constitutional and administrative law. She also served as the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and the Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Law, held the Stewart and Judy Colton Chair in Law and Security and ultimately became Dean of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. From 1993 to 1994, she was a post-doctoral Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. She also taught as a visiting professor in various law schools, including Stanford, Columbia, Duke, Virginia, UCLA and Toronto.

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This event is part of a week-long visit by the Justice Barak-Erez to Cardozo as Justice-in-Residence.