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Daphna Hacker

Personal Details

Name: Daphna Hacker

Department: Faculty of Law

Faculty of Humanities: Women and Gender Studies Program

Home Address: 51 Komemiut st. Tel Aviv 69011

Home Phone No: 03-6440681; 03-6406385

Place and Date of Birth: 16 April 1969, Jerusalem, Israel.

A. EDUCATION

1.

Period of Study: Oct. 1991-Feb. 1994

Name of University, City, Country: Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Subject: Law

Degree: LL.B.

Date Awarded: 1994

2.

Period of Study: Aug.1995-May 1996

Name of University, City, Country: American University Washington College of Law,

Washington, USA

Subject: Law

Degree: LL.M. (Cum Laude)

Date Awarded: May 1996

Title of Theses: “SINGLE AND MARRIED WOMEN IN THE LAW OF

ISRAEL – A FEMINIST CRITIQUE" [Eng.]

Name of supervisor: Prof. Ann Shalleck.

3.

Period of Study: October 1998-Sep. 2004 (including one year of

completions in Sociology)

Name of University, City, Country: Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Subject: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

Faculty of Social Sciences

Degree: Ph.D (Cum Laude)

Date Awarded: 2004

Title of Doctoral dissertation: “’MOTHERHOOD’, ‘FATHERHOOD’, AND LAW: A

SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FIELD THAT SHAPES

CUSTODY AND VISITATION ARRANGEMENTS” [Hebrew]

Name of supervisor: Prof. Ronen Shamir and Prof. Haya Stier.

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B. FURTHER STUDIES

October 2003 – September 2004 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Post-Doctorate Student at the Department of Sociology and

Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences

C. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-1997 Adam Institution for Democracy and Peace

Workshop instructor

1993-1994 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty.

Research Assistant of Mr. Michael Atlan in his study on “The

Human Right to Adequate Standard of Living”

1994-1995 Veisglass-Almagor Law Firm, Tel-Aviv.

Law clerk

1994-1995 Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Committee for Promoting Women’s

Status, on behalf of the Israel Democracy Institute.

Research Assistant

1995 Admitted to the Israeli Bar Association.

1996-1998 Israeli Women’s Network Legal Department

Lawyer

1998-2000 Israel Democracy Institute

Project Coordinator

1998-2003 Tel Aviv University, Israel

Faculty of Law and the Department of Sociology and

Anthropology

Research and Teaching Assistant

2000-2002 Tel Aviv University, Israel

Sociology and Anthropology Department

Teacher

2000-2002 Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo.

School of Government and Society

Teacher

2001-2004 Tel Aviv University, Israel

NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program

Teacher

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2003-2004 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Sociology and Anthropology Department

Teacher

2005 – 2010 Tel Aviv University, Israel

Faculty of Law and the Women and Gender Studies Program

Assistant Professor

September 2007 Northwestern University School of Law

Visiting Scholar

2010 – to present Tel Aviv University, Israel

Faculty of Law and the Women and Gender Studies Program

Senior Lecturer, with tenure

July 2012 Asia American Institute in Transnational Law,

Duke Law Schooling cooperation with Hong Kong University,

Hong Kong.

Visiting Professor

September 2013 Cornell University Law School

Visiting Professor

D. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

D.1 Organization of Scientific Meetings

1. 3th Israeli Law and Society Association Conference, Tel Aviv University ,

December 2009 (Co-Chair).

2. Rights and Obligations in the Contemporary Family: Retheorizing

Individualism, Families and the State, Tel Aviv University December 2010 (Co-

Chair).

3. The International Conference on New Understandings of Gender, Love and

the Jewish Family, Van Leer Institute, December 2012, Jerusalem (Academic

Committee).

4. Wealth, Families and Death: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Wills and

Inheritance, Oñati International Institute, April 2013, Spain (Co-Chair).

5. Men's Groups: Challenging Feminism, University of British Columbia, May

2014, Canada (Co-Chair).

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D.2. Active Particpation in Scientific Meetings (Selcted lectures only)

6. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, May

2000.

7. The International Sociological Association Laboratory for Ph.D. Students in

Sociology, Courmayeur, Italy, September 2001.

8. The 34th

Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Beit Berl

College, February 2003.

9. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May 2004.

10. International Conference on "Children's Rights – Theory and Practice",

Jerusalem, November 2005.

11. International Conference on "Gender, Religion and Politics", Van Leer

Institute, Jerusalem , January 2006.

12. The 37th

Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Bar Ilan

University, February 2006.

13. The Second Interdisciplinary Israeli Conference on Qualitative Research

Methods, Tel Aviv, June 2006.

14. The International Sociological Association XVI World Congress of

Sociology, Durban, South Africa, July 2006.

15. Conference on "The New Family", Haifa University, May 2007.

16. The First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Berlin, Germany,

July 2007.

17. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July 2007.

18. 6th

Global Conference, Making Sense of: Dying and Death, Salzburg,

Austria, November 2008.

19. 2th

Israeli Law and Society Association Conference, Hebrew University,

December 2008.

20. The 40th

Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, The College

of Management, Rishon LeZion, February 2009.

21. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, May 2009.

22. The International Society of Family Law Regional Conference on “Family

Law in a Multicultural Environment: Civil and Religious Law in Family Matters”,

Bar Ilan University, June 2009.

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23. The Future of Legal Theory, Tel Aviv University, June 2010.

24. 14th World Conference of International Society of Family Law, Lyon,

France, July 2011.

25. Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, June

2011.

26. The Field Giving Birth to the Family, Bar Ilan University, April 2011.

27. 5th

Israeli Law and Society Association Conference, Bar Ilan University,

December 2011.

28. Dignity on the Margins of Humanity and Beyond, part II, Tubingen

University, Germany, September 2011.

29. Borders and Human Rights, Academic Center of Law and Business, Ramat

Gan, January 2012.

30. 5th

Israeli Conference on Qualitative Research, Ben-Gurion University,

February 2012.

31. The Jewish Family and Secularization, The Western Galilee College,

January 2012.

32. Intergenerational Justice, Academic Center of Law and Business, Ramat

Gan, January 2013.

33. Relocating Borders: A Comparative Approach, Humboldt University,

Berlin, January 2013.

34. Empirical Legal Studies, Tel Aviv University, May 2013.

35. Gender and Migration: Changes and Challenges, The Chinese University

of Hong Kong, December 2013.

E. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

E.1 INTERNAL GRANTS

2005-2006 Colton Foundation Grant for Research ($3867, PI)

2007 Cegla Center Publication Grant (12,000NS, PI)

2008 Cegla Center Publication Grant (8,000NS, PI)

2009 Colton Foundation Grant for Research ($1430, PI)

2011 Cegla Center Publication Grant (12,000NS, PI)

2011 Dean of Humanities Grant and Colton Foundation Grant for a book

publication (11,500NS, PI)

2031 Colton Foundation Grant for Research ($0222, PI)

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E.2. EXTERNAL GRANTS

2001-2003 Research Grant, Israel Foundations Trustee

2006-2008 Research Grant, Israel Foundations Trustee ($22,000, PI)

2009-2012 Israel Science Foundation Grant (234,000NS, PI)

2010 Research Grant, on behalf of the US State Department and CIMI, for

a search on the rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking

(together with Prof. Orna Cohen), $40,000 (grant coordinated by the

Hotline for Migrant Workers)

E.3. FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

1999-2000 Full Ph.D. Fellowship, The William P. and R. Lowenstein

Doctoral Fellowship, Tel-Aviv University

2002 Excellence Scholarship, The Lord and Lady Sieff Doctoral

Fellowship, The Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty, Tel-Aviv

University

2002 ISA UNESCO Scholarship to attend ISA International Laboratory

for Ph.D. Students

2002 Chutick Scholarship for the Encouragement of Women, The

Women Studies Forum, Tel Aviv University

2002-2003 Full Ph.D. Fellowship, The Colton Foundation, Tel-Aviv

University.

2003-2004 Post Doctoral Fellowship, Golda Meir Fund, Hebrew University

2008 The Cegla Center Research Fellowship

1995-1996 The New Israel Fund Fellowship of the Human Rights Lawyers

Program

E.4. AWARDS

1997 Solf Award, Highest Scholastic Average Master of Laws Division,

American University Washington College of Law

2000 Award for excellence in social involvement, The Henri Glasberg

Scholarship Fund, Tel Aviv University

2003 NCJW DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Medal of Excellence in

Education Award

2008 The Social Science Faculty Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching

2013 The Katan Award for the Advancement of Gender Justice through

Voluntary Work

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F. MASTER STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Year Name of

Student

Title of Thesis Institution Comments

2005-2009 Judith

Maisels

The Tender Years

Doctrine: Who does it

strengthen?

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2005-2009 Galit

Samuel

Criminalization of Sexual Exploitation in Psychotherapy in the

Israeli Law

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis; with

Prof. Daphne Barak-

Erez

2006-2009 Adi Niv-

Yagoza

Perceptions of Minors

with Life Threatening

Diseases on The Right

to Participate in Medical

Procedures

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2007-2009 Lidia

Rabinovitz

The Status of the Non-

Married Father in

Adoption Proceedings

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2005-2009 Michael

Macchia

Towards a Just

Legalization of

Matrimonial Property

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2009-2011 Tal Hassin Good Mother, Bad

Mother: Parental

Rights' Expropriation

through the Youth Act

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis; with

Prof. Neta Ziv

2009-2011 Roni

Liberson

The Procedural Promise

of Relational Theory

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2009-2013 Nasreen

Alemy-

Kabha

Inheritance of

Palestinian Muslim

At the Sharia Courts in

Israel

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2011-present Michal

Fine

Implementation of

Collaborative

Divorce in Israeli Law

Tel-Aviv

University

LL.M Thesis

2013-present Tsviya Shir The Israeli Education

System's Handling of

Sexual Harassment in

Schools

Tel-Aviv

University

M.A Thesis

(Education)

2013-present Liron

Bliewiess The Interrelations

between being a

Parent and Leaving

the Ultraorthodox

Community

Tel-Aviv

University

M.A. Thesis

(Gender)

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G. DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED BY CANDIDATE

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS A. BOOKS

Daphna Hacker

FAMILY ISSUES THROUGH THE LENS OF THE LAW (Ben Shemen: Modan Publishing

House., 2012) pp.171 [Hebrew].

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PARENTHOOD IN THE LAW – BEHIND THE SCENE OF CUSTODY AND VISITATION UPON

DIVORCE (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd, 2008) pp.300 [Hebrew].

B.1 ARTICLES

1. Ronen Shamir & Daphna Hacker, Colonialism’s Civilizing Mission: The Case of the

Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 26(2) Law and Social Inquiry 435-461 (2001).

2. Daphna Hacker, Single and Married Women in the Law of Israel – A Feminist

Perspective, 9(1) Feminist Legal Studies 29-56 (2001).

3. Daphna Hacker & Ronen Shamir, Concepts of Motherhood, Fatherhood and

Family in Israeli Courts: A Case Study, 5(2) Israeli Sociology 311-340 (2003)

[Hebrew].

4. Daphna Hacker & Michal Frenkel, Active Parenthood and Employment Equal

Opportunities: The Need to Change the Characteristics of the Labor Force, 11 Labor,

Society and Law 275-303 (2005) [Hebrew].

2009-present Hila Meller The Mutual Relations

between

the Assistance Units

and the Family

Court: Between the

“Legal” and the

“Therapeutic”

Bar Ilan

University

with Prof. Ruth

Halperin Kaddari

2012-present Roni

Liberson

Interaction between

Law and Science in

Child Custody

Litigation

Tel-Aviv

University

with Prof. Shai Lavi

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5. Daphna Hacker, Beyond ‘old maid’ and ‘Sex and the City’: Singlehood as an

Important Option for Women and Israeli Law’s Attitude towards This Option, 28(3)

Tel Aviv law Review 903-950. (2005) [Hebrew].

6. Daphna Hacker, Motherhood, Fatherhood and Law: Child Custody in Israel, 14(3)

Social and Legal Studies 409-431 (2005).

7. Daphna Hacker, Children’s Exclusion from Divorce Proceedings, 22 College of

Management Law Review 63-72. (2006) [Hebrew].

8. Daphna Hacker, Invitation to the Sociology of Law and a Preliminary Mapping of the

Field in Israel, 4(1) Din Udvarim 95-129 (2008) [Hebrew].

9. Daphna Hacker, A Legal Field in Action: The Case of Divorce Arrangements in

Israel, 4(1) International Journal of Law in Context 1-33 (2008).

10. Daphna Hacker, Inter-Religious Marriages in Israel: Gendered Implications for

Conversion, Children and Citizenship, 14(2) Israel Studies 178-197 (2009).

Also published in a different version as:

Daphna Hacker, From the Moabite Ruth to Norly the Filipino: Intermarriage and

Conversion in the Jewish Nation State, in Gendering Religion and Politics:

Untangling Modernities, 101-124 (Hanna Herzog and Ann Braude - Eds., Palgrave

Macmillan, 2009).

11. Daphna Hacker , The Gendered Dimensions of Inheritance: Empirical Food for

Legal Thought, 7(2) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 322-354 (2010)

12. Ayelet Belcher-Prigat & Daphna Hacker, Strangers or Parents: The Current and the

Desirable Legal Status of Parents' Spouses, 40 Hebrew University Law Review 5-65

(2010) [Hebrew].

Also published in a shorter version in Naama Sabar Ben-Yehoshus & Gali Sabar,

Two Houses and a Child The Story of Integrated Families in Israel (Schoken

Publishing House, 2012).

13. Michal Frenkel, Daphna Hacker & Yael Braudo, Working Families in Israeli Law:

Between Neo-Liberalism and Human Rights, in Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, Gender in

Israel 682-727 (Margalit Shilu & Gideon Katz Eds., 2010) [Hebrew].

14. Daphna Hacker & Roni Liberson, Cross Boarders Families in Israel: Between

Individualism, Globalization and the Ethnos, 15(2) College of Management Law

Review 509-529 (2010) [Hebrew].

15. Daphna Hacker, Soulless Wills, 35(4) Law and Social Inquiry 857-983 (2010).

16. Daphna Hacker, Empirical Legal Studies: Sympathetic Comments on the Current

Trend, 24(2-3) Tel Aviv Law Review 327-349 (2011) [Hebrew].

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17. Daphna Hacker, Law and Society Jurisprudence, 96 Cornell Law Review 727-748

(2011).

18. Daphna Hacker, Religious Tribunals in Democratic States: Lesson from the Israeli

Rabbinical Courts, 27(1) Journal of Law and Religion 59-82 (2012).

19. Daphna Hacker, Men's Groups as a New Challenge to the Israeli Feminist Movement:

Lessons from the Ongoing Gender War over the Tender Years Presumption, 18(3)

Israel Studies 29-40 (2013).

20. Daphna Hacker & Ruth Halperin Kaddari, The Ruling Rules in Custody Disputers –

On the Dangers of the Parental Sameness Illusion in a Gendered Reality, 15 Mishpat

and Mimshal 91-170 (2013) [Hebrew].

B.1.1 CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1. Daphna Hacker, Dilemmatic Feminism and the Preferred Physical Custody Model

upon Divorce, in Essays on Law, Gender and Feminism 699-732 (Daphne Barak-

Erez et al., Eds., 2007) [Hebrew].

2. Daphna Hacker, Michal Kromer Nevo & Maya Lavie Ajayi, An Invitation to a

Discussion on Feminist Research Methodologies, in Michal Kromer Nevo, Maya

Lavie Ajayi, & Daphna Hacker (Eds), Feminist Research Methodologies (Hakibbutz

Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 2014) [Hebrew].

B.1.2 ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

1. Daphna Hacker, Intergenerational Wealth Transfer and the Need to Revive and

Metamorphose the Israeli Estate Tax, Law and Ethics of Human Rights

(forthcoming, 2014).

2. Daphna Hacker, Disappointed "Heirs" as a Socio-Legal Phenomenon, Oñati Socio-

Legal Series (forthcoming, 2014).

3. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Daphna Hacker & Hagai Boaz, The Will of the Dead – Three

Case Studies, Israeli Sociology (forthcoming, 2014). [Hebrew].

D. BOOKS EDITED

1. RUTH GAVISON & DAPHNA HACKER (EDS.) THE JEWISH-ARAB RIFT: A READER

(Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute, 2000) [Hebrew].

2. DAPHNA HACKER & NETA ZIV (EDS.) IS LAW IMPORTANT? (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv

University, 2010) [Hebrew].

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3. MICHAL KROMER NEVO, MAYA LAVIE AJAYI, & DAPHNA HACKER (EDS), FEMINIST

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd., 2014)

[Hebrew].

E. JOURNAL VOLUMES EDITING

1. Daphna Hacker & Cynthia Bauman (Guest Editors), Rights and Obligations in

the Contemporary Family: Retheorizing Individualism, Families and the State,

13(1) Theoretical Inquiries of Law (2012).

2. Daniel Monk & Daphna Hacker, (Editors), Wealth, Families and Death:

Socio-Legal Perspectives on Wills and Inheritance (Oñati Socio-Legal Series

(forthcoming, 2014).

F. Other Publications

Reviews and Comments

1. Daphna Hacker, Next Pessach: Literacy and Identity of Young Religious Zionist

Women by Tamar El-Or, 2(1) Israeli Sociology 361-363 (1999) [Hebrew].

2. Daphna Hacker, Communities and Law – Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities

by Gad Barzilai, 37 Israel Law Review 596-602 (2005).

3. Daphna Hacker, Gender and Society in Israel, Israeli Democracy vol. 10, 8(2)

Israeli Sociology 596-602 (2007) [Hebrew].

4. Daphna Hacker, Lack of Luck in the Courts: A Comment on Menachem Mautner

9(1) Theoretical Inquiries in Law Forum, Article 18 (2008) Available at:

http://www.bepress.com/til/default/vol9/iss1/art18

5. Daphna Hacker, Children's Rights and Adults' Hostility, 11(2) Israeli Sociology

497-501 (2010) [Hebrew].

Other Publications

1. Daphna Hacker & Orna Cohen, Research Report: The Shelters in Israel for

Survivors of Human Trafficking, submitted to the US Department of State (2012).

Also published in Hebrew.

2. Daphna Hacker, Mujeres en Israel en la época neoliberal, 7 Culturas 136-149

(2012) [Spanish].

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

Member, Teaching Committee, Gender Studies Program, 2009-present.

Member, Research & Development Committee, Faculty of Law, Oct. 2009 – July 2010.

Chairperson, Library & Computer Committee, Faculty of Law, Oct. 2010 – July 2011.

Member, LL.M. Committee, Faculty of Law, Oct. 2008 - Oct. 2010.

Chairperson, LL.M. Committee, Faculty of Law, Aug. 2011 – June 2013.

SCHOLARLY POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

SCHOLARLY POSITIONS

2010 - Nomination to the Young Scholars in Humanities and Social Science Forum 2010,

The Israeli Academy of Science

2011-present - Member of the Publication Committee, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEES

2005-2011 - Member of the Governmental Committee on Parental Responsibility

upon Divorce.

2009-2010 - Member of the Governmental Committee for the Examination of the

Accessibility of the Courts to Academic Study.

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS

1995-2004 - Member of the Israeli Bar Association.

1999-present - Member of the Israeli Sociological Society.

2000-2003 - Member of the Law & Society Association.

2001-2011- Founder and Board Member of ‘Itach’ – Women Lawyers for Social Justice.

2003-2009 - Member of the New Israel Fund Selection Committee - The Legal

Leadership Program.

2006-2011 - Board Member of the Israeli Law and Society Association.

2010-2013 - Head of the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Forum, Tel Aviv University.

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2012-present - Member of the Israeli Bar Committee on Inheritance.

2013-present – Board Member of the Dafna Izraeli Fund.