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Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
2007-2008 Academic Year
Dr. Yofi Tirosh
Global Research Fellow
Dr. 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. Tirosh will join the Tel Aviv Law Faculty as an Assistant Professor in fall 2008. Since 2004, she has been teaching at the College of Management Law School, where she was named best lecturer. Her fields of research and teaching include antidiscrimination law, employment law, human rights, gender and law, and contemporary legal theory, with a special emphasis on body, identity, culture, and language. 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 and the military, and on affirmative action in Israel's civil service. In her research proposal entitled “Protecting Unclassifiable Identities: A Contemporary Challenge for Antidiscrimination Law” Dr. Tirosh proposes to examine discrimination against people whose identity defies clear classification on bases such as sex, race, age, religion, etc. With this in mind, Dr. Tirosh hopes to develop a new theoretical basis and doctrinal model that would enable courts to recognize a new type of discrimination claim within existing antidiscrimination laws.