Masua Sagiv

Biography

Masua is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Her dissertation, written under the supervision of Prof. Leora Bilsky and Prof. Menachem Mautenr, involves Israeli religious feminism and social change through the law. Masua is a research scholar at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies and a research fellow at the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics in the Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University (2014). She also serves as a teaching assistant in family law and feminism and the law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and Sapir College School of Law.

Masua acquired her LL.B. (Magna Cum Laude) in Law and Political Science from Bar Ilan University (2009), and her LL.M. (With Honors) from Columbia University School of Law, N.Y. (2011), where she also obtained the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Certificate (2011). During her studies for the LL.M. degree, Masua was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and Norman E. Alexamder Fellow. She also received Bar Ilan's Law Faculty's Dean's Scholarship for outstanding graduate students.

Masua is married to Netanel and is the mother of Tamar and Matan.

 

Research Interests

Religious feminism, Law and social change, Family law, Constitutional law, Law & culture, Jurisprudence

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Education

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012-

Ph.D. Candidate

Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Buchman Faculty of Law

Supervisors: Prof. Leora Bilsky, Prof. Menachem Mautner

Scholarships: Research Scholar, Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2012- ; Research Fellow, The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, 2014

 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY

LL.M., May 2011

Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Certificate, May 2011

Scholarships: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, 2010-11; Norman E. Alexander Fellow, Columbia University School of Law, 2010-11; Dean’s Scholarship for Graduate Students, Bar-Ilan University, 2010

 

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY, Ramat-Gan, Israel

LL.B. magna cum laude, in Law and Political Science, July, 2009

Activities:  Associate Editor, Law Studies – Bar Ilan Law Journal, 2007-2008; Staff Member, 2006-2007; Editor, Environmental Watch Journal, Bar Ilan University Environmental Clinic, 2006-2007

Honors: Dean’s Honors List, 2007

 

Academic and Professional Experience

Tel Aviv UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Teaching Assistant, February 2014-

Feminism and the Law

 

Sapir College School of Law, Sderot, Israel

Teaching Assistant, October 2012-

Family Law

 

ISRAELI MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, Jerusalem, Israel

Law Clerk, March 2008-February 2009

 

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Publications

Controlling the Education of Children in a Liberal Multicultural State – Religious Education in Israel: A Case Study, 31(4) Children’s Legal Rights Journal 49 (2011)

 

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