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Dr. KARIN CARMIT YEFET Associate Professor of Law (Senior Lecturer), University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Israel Telephone: 972-52-298-2168; E-mail: [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION YALE UNIVERSITY, CT, U.S.A. LL.M. (Master of Laws), 2005 grades with honors J.S.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science), 2012 (on scholarship; Fulbright, Fischman and HSBC fellow) PhD Dissertation: Marrying Dissolution to the Constitution: Divorce as a Fundamental Right Academic Activities: ▪ Shabtai - Yale Leadership Society, Elected Member (up to ten university-wide campus leaders voted into membership annually), 2011- present ▪ Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal ▪ Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Cultural Ambassador ▪ Yale Law Women, Mentor BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Ramat-Gan, Israel LL.M. (Master of Laws), Honors program, summa cum laude, 2002 (ranked first in class) LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws), summa cum laude, 2001 (ranked first in class) Academic Activities: ▪ Bar Ilan Law Review, Member of the Editorial Board ▪ Ono Academic College Law Review, Member of the Editorial Board and Deputy Editor in Chief ▪ Bar Ilan University Student Council, Legal Adviser ▪ Lecturer, Research Assistant, Tutor and Mentor. Received a certificate of excellence for “Exceptional Voluntary Service” from Bar-Ilan University’s Social Involvement Unit ▪ Admitted to the Israeli Bar 1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE HAIFA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LAW, tenured Associate Professor and Senior 2012- Lecturer present Academic Offices and Activities: ▪ Editor in Chief of Lawatch, the Haifa Law Review Online ▪ Chair of the Student Scholarships Committee, Head of the Haifa-Baltimore Student Exchange Program, Member of the Feminist Clinic Steering Committee, the Admissions Committee, and the Student Affairs Committee, Supervisor of Integrity and Ethics in Legal Studies, Member of the Justice Edmond Levy Prize Committee ▪ Reviewer for high-ranking refereed journals, including Law and Society Review, Journal of Law and Religion, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Levantine Studies, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Journal of Law & Ethics of Human Rights, and the Haifa, Tel-Aviv, Bar-Ilan, and Hebrew University Law Reviews ▪ Supervisor of Graduate Students and Reviewer of LLM and PhD dissertations (my first supervisee won the Rector’s Prize and Haifa Law Review Prize for his thesis; the second, a Muslim female, was appointed as a judge) ▪ Advisor to/collaborator with the Ministries of Justice and of Foreign Affairs (e.g., I was selected to assist the government in submitting the 2018 Universal Periodic Report on the status of women's rights to the UN Human Rights Council) ▪ Writer of opinions for Israel's Judicial Selection Committee ▪ Member of the Israeli Family Law Scholars Forum, the International Academy for the Study of the Jurisprudence of the Family, the International Society of Family law, the Law and Society Association, ICON-S Israel, and the ISEF Foundation (member of the Academic Committee for Doctoral Candidates in the Sciences) ▪ Organizer, keynote speaker, and participant in local and international conferences and workshops, including at Yale, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford, etc. A list of presentations and courses taught shall be provided upon request. THE PUBLIC COMMISSION APPOINTED BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO 2011-2012 EXAMINE THE MARITIME INCIDENT OF 31 MAY 2010, Senior Advisor for Part II of the Report that examined the Israeli mechanisms for investigating allegations of violations of the laws of armed conflict and international humanitarian law DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON, Law Firm, NY, USA [The then leading Law Firm in the U.S. 2008 according to the American Lawyer's A-list], Summer Associate, served as part of the report team to the Institute for Transnational Arbitration on behalf of Israel. Volunteering at Manhattan Legal Services, a public interest legal organization in Harlem, NYC. SUPREME COURT OF ISRAEL, Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Jacob Türkel 2003 - 2004 BAR ILAN LAW SCHOOL AND ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL AND 2003 – BUSINESS SCHOOL, Lecturer, research and teaching fellow 2005 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH 1. Karin Carmit Yefet, What’s the Constitution Got to Do With It? Regulating Marriage in Pakistan, 16 DUKE JOURNAL OF LAW, GENDER AND POLICY 347 (2009)(ranked 3rd among all gender journals) 2 2. Karin Carmit Yefet, Unchaining the Agunot: Enlisting the Israeli Constitution in the Service of Jewish Women's Marital Freedom, 20 YALE J. OF LAW & FEMINISM 101 (2009)(ranked 2nd in IF among gender journals), reprinted in GENDER IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Mark Tushnet, Paul Craig & Catherine MacKinnon eds. 2018) as one of "the most important and influential works" in the field 3. Karin Carmit Yefet, Female-Initiated Divorce in Pakistan: Western Liberalism in Islamic Garb, 34 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & GENDER 553 (2011) (ranked first among all gender journals) 4. Karin Carmit Yefet, Lifting the Egyptian Veil: A Constitutional Road Map to Female Marital Emancipation in the Islamic World, 5 THE FAMILY IN LAW JOURNAL 87 (2011) (special volume for works selected by the International Society of Family law) 5. Karin Carmit Yefet, Feminism and Hyper-Masculinity in Israel: A Case Study in Deconstructing Legal Fatherhood, 27 YALE J. OF LAW AND FEMINISM 49 (2015) (ranked 2nd in IF among all gender journals) 6. Karin Carmit Yefet, Born to be a Mother: Anatomy, Autonomy and Substantive Citizenship for Women in Israel, 39 HARVARD J. OF LAW & GENDER 270 (2016) (ranked first of all gender journals) 7. Karin Carmit Yefet, Synagogue and State in the Israeli Military: A Story of "Inappropriate Integration," 10 J. OF LAW & ETHICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS 223 (2016) (ranked 2nd/595 in IF among non-US journals) 8. Karin Carmit Yefet, Israeli Family Law as a Civil-Religious Hybrid: A Cautionary Tale of Fatal Attraction (on the Family Law Status of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women), 2016 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 1505 (2016) (ranked 22nd /1,548 law journals) 9. Noya Rimalt and Karin Carmit Yefet, Rethinking the Choice of "Private Choice" in Conceptualizing Abortion: A Reply to Chemerinsky and Goodwin's Abortion: A Woman’s Private Choice, invited article by TEXAS LAW REVIEW See also (vol. 95, 2017) (ranked 16th/1548 journals) 10. Arianne Renan Barzilay and Karin Carmit Yefet, A Tale of Fragmentation and Intertwinement: Israeli Family Law Between the Sacred and the Secular, in THE CONTESTED PLACE OF RELIGION IN FAMILY LAW (Robin Wilson, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2018) (a volume containing the works of leading family law scholars worldwide) 11. Karin Carmit Yefet, Divorce as a Substantive Gender-Equality Right, 22 PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (2020) 12. Karin Carmit Yefet, The Womb Monologues: Toward a Mizrahi-Feminist Theory of Israeli Law, American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming) SELECTD PUBLICATIONS IN HEBREW 13. THE JACOB TÜRKEL FESTSCHRIFT: STUDIES IN LAW, HALAKHAH, PHILOSOPHY, AND THEORY (Chief Justice Aaron Barak, Karin Carmit Yefet, and Deputy Chief Justice Elyakim Rubinstein eds., forthcoming, 2019) 14. Karin Carmit Yefet, A Voice of One's Own: Mizrahi Feminism in Israeli Law, 20 HAIFA UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2020, forthcoming) 3 15. Karin Carmit Yefet, Orientalism, Gender, and the Law: The Mizrahi M(O)ther as the Other in Israeli Law and Society, 41 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2019) 16. Karin Carmit Yefet, In the Name of the Mother: Rethinking Israel's Separatist Pro-Natalist Policy, 48 HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2018) 17. Shulamit Almog and Karin Carmit Yefet, Reconceptualizing Female Sexuality in Israeli Law, 45(3) HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 653 (2016) 18. Karin Carmit Yefet and Shulamit Almog, Religionization, Exclusion, and the Military: "Zero Motivation" for Gender Equality?, 39 TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 243 (2016) 19. Shulamit Almog and Karin Carmit Yefet, Sexuality, Gender, and the Law: The Legal Regulation of Sexual Economics, 45(2) HEBREW UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 385 (2015) 20. Karin Carmit Yefet, Administrative Action: Its Birth, Life, and Premature Demise, 3 ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 591 (2003) 4 .