Dr. Gila Stopler is a lecturer at the Ramat Gan Law School. She has graduated from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, magna cum laude, has worked as a lawyer for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and has earned LL.M and J.S.D degrees from the NYU School of Law where she was a Public Service Scholar and a Hauser Research Scholar. Her areas of research include: constitutional law, civil rights and comparative civil rights law, multiculturalism, women’s rights, equality, and church-state relations.

Her publications include: The Conflict between Freedom of Religion and Association and between Equal Employment Opportunities – A Comparative Look, 11 AVODA MISHPAT VEHEVRA 323 (2005, Hebrew); The Liberal Bind: The Conflict Between Women’s Rights and Patriarchal Religion in the Liberal State, 31 SOCIAL THEORY AND PRACTICE 191 (2005); Countenancing the Oppression of Women: How Liberals Tolerate Religious and Cultural Practices that Discriminate Against Women, 12 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 154 (2003)

Email: gila@stopler.net