Michal Tamir (Hebrew: מיכל טמיר) (born in Israel on January 31, 1970) is president of the Israeli Law and Society Association. She is a professor of public law and criminal procedure law in the Academic Center of Science and law, and a practicing lawyer.

Biography

Michal Tamir was born on January 31, 1970, in

Tirat Carmel Tirat Carmel ( he, טִירַת כַּרְמֶל), or ''Tirat HaCarmel'', is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. In it had a population of . Throughout the ages, the site of the modern city was controlled by many people, including the Roma ...

, Israel, to parents of Iraqi origin. She is a professor of law a
The Academic Center of Science of law
She also serves as an adjunct professor at th
Bar Ilan University's Faculty of Law
Tamir earned her LL.B. in th
University of Haifa
(1995 ''cum laude'' and ranked first) and LL.M. in th
Hebrew University
(1999 "magna cum laude", and ranked first). She received her LL.D. in 2005 from th
Hebrew University
Her doctoral thesis was on "

Selective Enforcement In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials (such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators) exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use o ...

", supervised by former Supreme Court Justice, Professor

Yitzhak Zamir Yitzhak Zamir (Hebrew: יצחק זמיר) (born in Poland on April 15, 1931) is a professor of public law and Dean of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law, a former Attorney General of Israel, first Dean of the University of Haifa's ...

. Professor Tamir served from 1995 to 1996 as an intern of Supreme Court Justice

and in 1997 she served as a legal assistant for Supreme Court Justice

Dorit Beinisch Dorit Beinisch ( he, דורית ביניש; born February 28, 1942) was the 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Appointed on September 14, 2006, after the retirement of Aharon Barak, she served in this position until February 28, 2012 ...

. During the academic year 2005–2006 she made her post-doc as part of a part o
The Hauser Global Law School Program, NYU
Professor Tamir is a member o
The Israel Bar Association
since 1996.

Research areas

Constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fe ...

;

Administrative Law Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regulations"), ad ...

;

Criminal Procedure Law Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or i ...

; Tender Law; Human Rights in Private Law; The Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination;

Publications

Professor Tamir wrote the book '
Selective Enforcement
''
Nevo Publishers
2008), which provided the basis for the new judicial review ground on prosecution and administrative authorities. The book is cited frequently in th

decisions. Her second book
The State Comptroller: a Critical LookThe Israel Democracy Institute
Publication, 2009), evoked a debate on the intervention of the State Comptroller in public policies issues and non-systematic issues. Her article Equality of Homosexuals and Lesbians (2000) was one of the first theoretical attempts to deal with the issue in Israel and was widely quoted. The article was used in a precedent decision of the Family Court (2004), which approved a family agreement between homosexual couple and the mother of one of the spouse's children. The article was also used in th

decision (2010), which ordered th
Jerusalem Municipality
to support the activity of th
Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH)
Many other Tamir's articles are quoted in the Supreme Court decisions.See, for example

an

References

External links

* Professor Michal Tamir's page in the Academic Center of Law and Science, Israel i
here
* Professor Michal Tamir's SSRN pag
here
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