Talia Fisher is the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights and former Vice Dean for Research at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Her research interests include evidence law, procedural law theory, and the private supply of legal institutions. She holds an LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D. in law from the Hebrew University. Fisher has been a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy (2023), a visiting professor at the University of Toronto (2017, 2009), a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2013), and a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (2003, 2010, 2013).
Fisher was awarded the Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Research (2018), the Shneur Zalman Cheshin Award for Academic Excellence in Law (2012), and the Zeltner Prize for Young Legal Scholars (2009). She also received the Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017. She was a member of the Israeli Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities from its establishment until 2017 and co-headed the “Human Rights in Judaism Program” at the Israeli Democracy Institute (2019-2022). Since 2019, Fisher has been a member of the academic board of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies and is currently serving her third term. In 2024, she was named a corresponding member of the Italian Academic Society for Evidence Law (Associazione Italiana Studiosi Della Prova). In 2020, she joined the editorial board of the "International Journal of Evidence and Proof" and is currently serving as its Deputy Chief Editor. In 2024, she joined the editorial board of “Law and Philosophy.”
