Dr. Gila Stopler is a lecturer in the Academic Center of Law and Business. She has graduated from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, 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, and church-state relations.

Representative  publications: Israel's Natality Policy and the Rights of Women and Minorities, 11 MISHPAT UMIMSHAL (Law and Government) 473 (2008, Hebrew); Contextualizing Multiculturalizm – A Three Dimensional Examination of Multicultural Claims, 1 LAW AND ETHICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 309-353 (2007); 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