Talia Fisher is the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, and the former Vice Dean for Research at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Since joining the faculty in 2004 she has written on Evidence Law Theory, private supply of legal institutions, empirical analysis of law, and probabilistic applications in procedural law. Fisher has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto (2009, 2017), a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra center for Ethics at Harvard University (2013), a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (2003, 2010, 2013) and a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy (2023). She holds an LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. in law from the Hebrew University. Fisher was awarded the Fattal Prize for excellence in legal research (2018) the Shneur Zalman Cheshin Award for Academic Excellence in Law (2012) as well as the Zeltner Prize for Young Legal Scholars (2009). She was also awarded the Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017). Fisher was a member of the Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities since its establishment and until 2017, as well as a member of the international Global Young Academy (GYA). In the years 2018-2021 Fisher co-headed the “Program for Human Rights in Judaism” in the Israeli Democracy Institute, where she was also a senior fellow. In 2020 she joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof as Deputy Chief Editor, and is currently serving her second term as a member of the academic board of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies.
