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Prof. Keren Weinshall (Margel) | The Faculty of Law

Prof. Keren Weinshall (Margel)

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Prof.
Keren
Weinshall (Margel)
Member of The Israeli Young Academy of Arts and Sciences
Edward S. Silver Professor of Law

Education

Ph.D., 2012
Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvard Law School, Harvard University Visiting Researcher, 2009-2010
 
 M.A., 2007 (valedictorian),
Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
Ranked 1st in the P.S. Department and in the top 1% of Social Sciences' Faculty
Rector's list, 2007 
 
LL.B. (magna cum laude), 2003 
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dean's List, 2002 
 
B.A. (magna cum laude) As part of a double major program, 2003
Political Science Department, Tel Aviv University
"Rector's List, 2002".

 

Representative publications

  • Lee Epstein, Gunnar Grendstad, Urˇska Sadl & Keren Weinshall  (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour, Oxford University Press, (expected 2023).
  • Tamar Kricheli-Katz & Keren Weinshall, Judging Fast or Slow: The Effects of Reduced Caseloads on Gender- and Ethnic- Based Disparities in Case Outcomes, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (expected 2023).
  • Christoph Engel & Keren Weinshall, Diffusion of Legal Innovations, 18 Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 139-153 (2022).
  • Lee Epstein, Urška Šadl & Keren Weinshall, 69 The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior, American Journal of Comparative Law, 689–719 (2021).
  • Lee Epstein & Keren Weinshall, The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior: A Comparative Perspective (monograph in Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics, and Politics), Cambridge University Press (2021).
  • Keren Weinshall, Courts and Diversity: Normative Justifications and their Empirical Implications, 15(2) Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 187-220 (2021).
  • Keren Weinshall & Lee Epstein, Developing 'Big Data' Infrastructure for Legal Analytics: Introducing the Israeli Supreme Court Database, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 416-434 (2020).
  • Christoph Engel & Keren Weinshall, Manna from Heaven for Judges: Judges’ Reaction to a Quasi-Random Reduction in Caseload, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 722-751 (2020).
  • Keren Weinshall, Udi Sommer & Ya’acov Ritov, Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts, 12 Regulation & Governance, 315-427 (2018).
  • Keren Weinshall-Margel, Attitudinal and Neo-Institutional Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical and Comparative Perspective from Israel, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 556-586 (2011).
  • Keren Weinshall-Margel & John Shapard, Overlooked Factors in the Analysis of Parole Decisions, 108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 833-834 (2011).