Prof. Roy Kreitner
Adi Youcht
Supervisor/s
Biography
Adi Youcht is a doctoral candidate at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law and a fellow member of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She holds an LL.B. (magna cum laude), LL.M. (magna cum laude), and BA in Management (magna cum laude) – all three from Tel-Aviv University. She also took part in complementary studies in Philosophy and Comparative Literature & Semiotics at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Humanities. During 2012-2013 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality, and in 2013 she was an invited Visiting Scholar at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Previously she taught at the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, the Bar-Ilan University Gender Studies Program, the Open University Economics & Management Department, and Sha'arei Mishpat College. Her clerkship was completed at the State Attorney's office in Jerusalem.
Adi's doctoral research aims at offering an initial critical examination of the value "body" in bodily injury claims based on the presumption that bodily injury claims are a central locus for constructing the body, and relying on the assumption that the current social understanding of the body remains incomplete without theorizing the body in law. The project aspires to examine the configurations of knowledge concerning the body as produced in bodily injury law, to critically appraise the implications of these configurations of knowledge on the recognition of bodily damages or the eligibility of tort remedies, and to inquire how these configurations of knowledge affect the legal construction of body-derived identities (i.e., disabled or sexual identities).
Research Interests
Torts Theory, the Intersection between Torts and Social Security, Body and Law, Jurisprudence of Identities, Gender and Sexuality, Disability Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Law and Culture.
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Education
Doctoral Candidate
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2010-present
LL.M (magna cum laude)
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2008
Comparative Literature and Philosophy Studies
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Humanities, 2004-2007
B.A. (magna cum laude)
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Management, 2005
LL.B. (magna cum laude)
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2004
Academic and Professional Experience
Research Fellow, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2013-2014
Member, Research Group of Advanced Genomic Technology in Pregnancy
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2013
Invited Visiting Scholar, McGeorge School of Law
The University of the Pacific, 2013
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Gender and Sexuality
Columbia Law School, 2012-2013
Teacher, Daphna Center for Fostering Feminist Principles in Our Community
Bar-Ilan Gender Studies Program, 2012
Teacher, Course on Social Security
The Open University of Israel, 2006-2012
Academic Coordinator, Required Workshop for Master's Students Entitled "Theoretical Approaches to Law"
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2007-2009
Member, Editorial Board of "Theoretical Inquiries in Law"
Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law at Tel-Aviv University, 2007
Teaching Assistant, Courses on Gender and Sexuality, Law and Culture, Legal History
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2006-2008
Teaching Assistant, Course on Tort Law
Sha'arei Mishpat College, 2006-2008
Research Assistant, Family Law, Feminist Jurisprudence, and the Sociology of Law
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2005-2007
Articles Clerk, Department of Criminal Appeals
State Attorney's Office, Jerusalem, 2005-2006
Student Participant, Human Rights Clinical Legal Education Program
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, 2002-2003