Michal Tamir (; born in Israel on January 31, 1970) is former president of the Israeli Law and Society Association. She is a professor of public law and criminal procedure law in The Academic College of Science and Law, and a practicing lawyer. She is the head of graduate studies department, in the faculty of law at the Academic College of Science and Law and a practicing lawyer.

Biography

Michal Tamir was born on January 31, 1970, in

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, Israel, to parents of Iraqi origin. She now lives in

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. She is a professor of law at The Academic College of Science and Law. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the law faculties o
Bar Ilan University
and

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

. Tamir earned her LL.B. in th
University of Haifa
(1995 ''cum laude'' and valedictorian) and LL.M. in th
Hebrew University
(1999 "magna cum laude", and vledictorian). She received her LL.D. in 2005 from th
Hebrew University
Her doctoral thesis was on "

Selective Enforcement In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials (such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators) exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use of ...

", supervised by former Supreme Court Justice, Professor Yitzhak Zamir. Professor Tamir served from 1995 to 1996 as an intern of Supreme Court Justice Yitzhak Zamir and in 1997 she served as a legal assistant for Supreme Court Justice

Dorit Beinisch Dorit Beinisch (; born February 28, 1942) is a retired Israeli jurist. She was the 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Appointed on September 14, 2006, after the retirement of Aharon Barak, she served in this position until February 28 ...

. During the academic year 2005–2006 she made her post-doc as part of a part o
The Hauser Global Law School Program, NYU
In 2017-2019 she served as the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association (ILSA); In 2012-2013 she served as Tikvah Fellow-in-Residence, in NYU; and in 2021-2023 she served as a visiting professor in the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Professor Tamir is a member o
The Israel Bar Association
since 1996.

Academic and Professional Activities

During 2017-2019 Tamir was the president of the Israeli

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(ILSA). She is also a member of the

Association for Israel Studies Association for Israel Studies (AIS) is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly society devoted to the academic and professional study of modern Israel. History The Association for Israel Studies (AIS) was founded in the U.S. as an independe ...

(AIS). Tamir was part of the first consensus group of the Israeli Congress, which works within the framework of Bar-Ilan University to bridge the gap between a Jewish and Democratic State. Tamir is also active against a “Judicial Reform” that was suggested by the 37th Government of Israel.

Research areas

Constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in ...

;

Administrative Law Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch rulemaking (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regul ...

;

Criminal Procedure Law Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or ...

; Tender Law; Human Rights in Private Law; The Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination;

Publications

Professor Tamir wrote the book '
Selective Enforcement
''
Nevo Publishers
2008), which provided the basis for the new judicial review ground on prosecution and administrative authorities. The book is cited frequently in th

decisions. Her second book
The State Comptroller: a Critical LookThe Israel Democracy Institute
Publication, 2009), evoked a debate on the intervention of the State Comptroller in public policies issues and non-systematic issues. Her article Equality of Homosexuals and Lesbians (2000) was one of the first theoretical attempts to deal with the issue in Israel and was widely quoted. The article was used in a precedent decision of the Family Court (2004), which approved a family agreement between homosexual couple and the mother of one of the spouse's children. The article was also used in th

decision (2010), which ordered th
Jerusalem Municipality
to support the activity of th
Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance (JOH)
Many other Tamir's articles are quoted in the Supreme Court decisions.See, for example

an

References

External links

* Professor Michal Tamir's page in the Academic Center of Law and Science, Israel i
here
* Professor Michal Tamir's SSRN pag
here
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