Yael is a multidisciplinary researcher and a doctoral candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (ABD). She studies the intersection of law, religion and organizations, and combines sociological research methods and organizational theory with perspectives from law and the humanities and religious studies. Her current project examines, using qualitative methods, how religious organizations construct the meaning of diversity in their daily operation. Yael holds law degrees from Tel Aviv university and Yale law school.
Yael has an extensive teaching record in the legal studies department. This Fall semester she will teach R1B “Religion, Race and Law: Exploring the Religious Other,” which focuses on how law and religion interact in constructing, and dismantling, the “other”.
Recent publications:
- Authentic Compliance with a Symbolic Legal Standard? How Critical Race Theory Can Change Institutionalist Studies on Diversity in the Workplace. Law & Social Inquiry, 47(1), 331-346 (2022)
- Performing Law into Being: How One Religious Community Remade State Law. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 19(2), 352–385 (2019)