Prof. Netta Barak-Corren is a legal scholar and cognitive scientist, focusing on empirical and behavioral analysis of constitutional, public, and international law, and the intricate interactions between law and society. Most of Barak-Corren's research is geared towards developing an empirical approach to constitutional law and she is heading an ERC Starting Grant to develop this new approach.
Barak-Corren received her first degrees in Law in Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University (Valedictorian and three-time recipient of the Albert Einstein and Rector awards). She then clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish, and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard, graduating in 2016.
Currently, Prof. Barak-Corren is the Haim H. Cohn Chair in Human Rights at the law school and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. She is also the inaugural ERC Ambassador to Israel, an Elected Member of Israel Young Academy and a Nootbaar Religious Freedom Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Law. Previously, I taught at Chicago Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and was a Visiting Fellow at Edmund & Lily Safra Center for Ethics in Harvard; and Law, Ethics, and Public Policy Fellow at Princeton's University Center for Human Values, cross-affiliated with the Law Group at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
For more information on Barak-Corren's publications, public writing, research awards, and research grants, see here.
Education
S.J.D. Harvard Law School 2016
LL.M. Harvard Law School 2013
LL.B. and B.A. in Law and Cognitive Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2012
Representative Publications
Netta Barak-Corren and Tamir Berkman, Constitutional Consequences, 99(3) New York University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2024).
Netta Barak-Corren, The War Within Religion: Towards a More Nuanced Resolution of Religion/Equality Conflicts, American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming 2024)
Netta Barak-Corren, Noam Gidron, and Yuval Feldman, Majority Nationalism Laws and the Equal Citizenship of Minorities: Experimental, Panel, and Cross-Sectional Evidence from Israel, The Journal of Legal Studies (2023)
Netta Barak-Corren, Yoav Kan-Tor, and Nelson Tebbe, Examining the Effects of Antidiscrimination Laws on Children in the Foster Care and Adoption Systems, 19(4) The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1003-1066 (2022).
Netta Barak-Corren and Yael Kariv-Teitelbaum, Behavioral Responsive Regulation, Regulation and Governance (2021)
Netta Barak-Corren, Religious Exemptions Increase Discrimination Towards Same-sex Couples: Evidence from Masterpiece Cakeshop, 50(1) The Journal of Legal Studies 75-110 (2021)