Tel-Aviv University

Research Interests:

Legal theory and jurisprudence
Law, culture, and humanities
Antidiscrmination law
Gender and law
Human Rights

Yofi Tirosh received her LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and her LL.B from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She clerked for Hon. Justice Cheshin of Israel's Supreme Court, and served as a fellow at Michigan's Institute for the Humanities. Currently, she serves as a Hauser Global Research Fellow at NYU Law School. During 2004-7 Tirosh was a faculty member at the College of Management Law School, where she established the Body and Law Workshop, combining clinical practice and academic research on issues pertaining to legal regulation of the body. Her article, "Adjudicating Appearance: From Identity to Personhood" is forthcoming at the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. In Israel, Tirosh publishes articles on the discrimination of Arab citizens of Israel, on the rhetoric of judicial opinions in rape cases, on women in the military, and on affirmative action in Israel's civil service.