Shani Schnitzer

Faculty of Law

מנהלת הפקולטה למשפטים סגל אקדמי זוטר

General Information

Shani is a doctoral candidate in the direct course of studies toward a Ph.D. in Law at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Shani's main fields of research are legal history, public law and criminal law. Her dissertation, supervised by Prof. Assaf Likhovski and Prof. Yoram Shachar, is centered primarily on the 'unsung heroes' of Israeli law during its formative period.

Shani earned her LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. She had previously obtained a B.A. (magna cum laude) in East Asian Studies from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. (magna cum laude) in Legal Studies for Non-Jurists from Bar-Ilan University. Following her LL.B. studies, Shani completed a one-year legal internship at the Israeli Ministry of Justice (Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs).

Shani currently teaches courses at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and Reichman University Law School. From 2020-2023 she was a member of ICON-S-IL Blog's editorial board, first as editor and subsequently as executive editor and blog manager.

Scholarships, Awards and Other Distinctions

Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Faculty of Law), Tel Aviv University	2024
Rector's '100 List' for Excellence in Teaching, Tel Aviv University	2024
Cegla Student Paper Prize for Exceptional Legal Articles, awarded for Ben-Gurion, the High Court of Justice and the Israeli Constitution that Never Was	2023
Honorable Mention for an Outstanding Article, Israeli History and Law Association, awarded for Ben-Gurion, the High Court of Justice and the Israeli Constitution that Never Was
Honorable Mention for an Outstanding Article, Israel Law and Society Association, awarded for Ben-Gurion, the High Court of Justice and the Israeli Constitution that Never Was
Research scholarship from an Israel Science Foundation grant (no. 586/18 – Head Researcher: Prof. Assaf Likhovski)	2020-2022
Doctoral scholarship awarded by The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies	2018-2022
Doctoral scholarship awarded by The Buchmann Scholarship Fund	2018-2021
Meitar Fellow, Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies	2020

Publications

Academic Publications

Yaniv Roznai & Shani Schnitzer, Navigating the Ship in Stormy Waters: President Esther Hayut and the Israeli Constitutional Crises, 2018–2023 (under review).

Shani Schnitzer, Ben-Gurion, The Hight Court of Justice and the Israeli Constitution that Never Was, 53 Hebrew U.L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024) [Hebrew].

Amit Pundik, Shani Schnitzer & Binyamin Blum, Sex, Lies, and Reasonableness: The Case for Subjectifying the Criminalisation of Deceptive Sex, 41 Crim. Just. Ethics 167 (2022).

Shani Schnitzer & Yoram Shachar, The Tel Aviv High Court of Justice: A Real Alternative Reality, 43 TAU L. Rev. 137 (2020) [Hebrew].

Shorter Publications

Shani Schnitzer & Yaniv Roznai, Fifty Shades of Division: Symposium on the Proposal to Divide the Institution of Attorney General – Conclusion, ICON-S-IL Blog (Oct. 1, 2021) [Hebrew].

Shani Schnitzer & Yaniv Roznai, Symposium: An 'Alternating Government' in a World of Constitutional Instability – Introduction, ICON-S-IL Blog (Jan. 21, 2021) [Hebrew].

Shani Schnitzer, United Mizrahi Bank: a Slow Revolution or a Constitutional Setback?, ICON-S-IL Blog (Dec. 27, 2020) [Hebrew].

Shani Schnitzer, The High Court of Justice as a Battleground: Jewish Underground Militias between Mandate and State, ICON-S-IL Blog (Oct. 15, 2020) [Hebrew].