Professor Dr Netta Barak-Corren

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://en.law.huji.ac.il/people/netta-barak-corren

Netta Barak-Corren is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   She received her first dual-major degree in Law and Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University as the Valedictorian of her class and her Doctorate in Law from Harvard University. Netta’s research centers around empirical and behavioral analysis of public and constitutional law. She is particularly interested in questions relating to law and religion, equality, and conflicts of norms, both at the individual and societal levels.  Her research won numerous grants and awards, most notably the Gorni Prize for an Outstanding Junior Faculty in Public Law, the Birk prize for Excellence in Legal Studies, Stanford’s International Junior Faculty Forum, Harvard’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellowship, the Howard Raiffa Best Paper Prize, the Fisher-Sander Best Paper Prize, and the Menachem Goldberg Best Paper Award. Prior to academia, Netta clerked for the Chief Justice of Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish.

Selected publications:

• Netta Barak-Corren, Reexamining the evidence on Ultra-Orthodox attitudes and gender separation in academia. 49 MISHPATIM—HEBREW U. LAW REVIEW (2019) [in Hebrew].
• Netta Barak-Corren, Yuval Feldman, & Noam Gidron. The Provocative Effect of Law: Majority Nationalism and Minority Discrimination, 15(4) JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 951-986 (2018).

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Netta_Barak-Corren