Prof. Netta Barak-Corren is a legal scholar and cognitive scientist, focusing on empirical and behavioral analysis of constitutional and public law, with a particular interest in conflicts of rights and the interaction between law and religion and law and social norms. Most of Barak-Corren's research is geared towards developing an empirical approach to constitutional law and she recently won 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, Barak-Corren is on leave, serving as Law, Ethics, and Public Policy Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and at the P*Law Group at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). She is also a Nootbaar Religious Freedom Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Law. Previously, she 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.
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)