Daphne Barak-Erez (; born 2 January 1965) is an Israeli law
professor
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. Since May 2012, she serves as a judge in the
Supreme Court of Israel
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Personal life
Daphne Barak-Erez was born in the United States to Israeli parents, and became a
citizen by birthright of the United States. The family later returned to Israel, where she was raised. She studied law at
Tel Aviv University
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as part of the
Atuda
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program, earning
LLB,
LLM, and
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degrees,
and did
postdoctoral research
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at
Harvard University
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. She served in the
Military Advocate General
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's Office of the
Israel Defense Forces
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, and was discharged from regular service with the rank of captain. She continued serving in the reserves and reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
In 2012, she
renounced her US citizenship as required by Israeli law in order to take up her Supreme Court position.
Legal and academic career
Barak-Erez was appointed a lecturer at the
University of Haifa
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Faculty of Law in 1991, and at the
Tel Aviv University
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Faculty of Law in 1992. She was appointed associate professor, and became a full professor in 2004. She was also a lecturer at
IDC Herzliya
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and the College of Management. She was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law at
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
in the fall of 2011. As a scholar, she specializes in constitutional and administrative law. In 2009 she was one of the final candidates for the position of Attorney General. Barak-Erez was a visiting professor at various universities, including
Columbia
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,
Stanford
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,
Duke
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, and
UCLA
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, as well as a visiting researcher in other distinguished institutions such as
Harvard
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,
Yale
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,
Cambridge
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, and the
Max Planck Institute
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.
Publications
Barak-Erez is the author and editor of 20 books and 130 articles, including ''Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel'' (
University of Wisconsin Press
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, 2007) and ''Administrative Law'' (in Hebrew, 4 volumes, 2010, 2013, 2017). She is currently a member of
Council for Higher Education in Israel
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.
Awards and recognition
She was awarded several prizes, including the Zeltner Prize, the Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (twice), the Woman of the City Award by the City of
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
, and the Women in Law Award by the
Israel Bar Association
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In November 2013, Daphne Barak-Erez accepted an award in Israel's name, for progress made in reducing gender gaps. The award was presented by Women in Parliament Global Forum during a ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels.
See also
*
Israeli judicial system
References
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1965 births
Living people
Israeli legal scholars
People who renounced United States citizenship
Tel Aviv University alumni
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel
Israeli women judges
Women legal scholars
Scholars of administrative law
Scholars of constitutional law
21st-century Israeli women writers
American emigrants to Israel