Ofra Bloch is a tenured Associate Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on the history and theory of constitutional law, administrative law, antidiscrimination law, and education law, with a focus on questions of inequality. She holds a J.S.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School, and an LL.M. and LL.B. from Tel Aviv University, where she also completed the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students. Prior to her graduate studies, Bloch clerked for the Honorable Justice Esther Hayut on the Supreme Court of Israel.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Fellowship (2017), the American Society for Legal History Kathryn T. Preyer Award (2019), the Alon Scholarship for Outstanding Junior Faculty (2021), the Gorni Prize for an Outstanding Young Scholar in Public Law (2021), and the Zeltner Prize for Excellence in Research for Junior Legal Scholars (2025). Her work has appeared in leading journals, including Law and History Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and The George Washington Law Review.
