Dr. Shira Rosenberg-Lavi

Associate, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Education, Ono Academic College.

About

Commissioner of Ethics and Discipline, Ono Academic College.

Member of the leading board of self-evaluation process and report – Council for Higher Education, Ono Academic College.

Education

Post-Doctorate at The Paul Baerwald of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021-2023.

Ph.D, Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University, awarded 2021.

Teaching Areas

Law and Education, Children and Youth at Law, Juvenile Delinquent, and Criminology and Victimology

Research interests

Since 2020 “The Decline of the Tender Years Presumption in Israeli Law: A Study in Law & Culture” (Awarded by the ISF). Research assistant to Professor Zvi Triger & Professor Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, the Haim Striks School of Law, the College of Management Academic Studies 2017-2018 “Judicial Conflict Resolution (JCR): Examining Hybrids of non-adversarial Justice” (Awarded by the ERC). Research assistant to Professor Michal Alberstein, The Faculty of Law Bar-Ilan University.

Selected Publications

The Sexual Harassmnet Commissioner Role as Therapy in the shadow of Authority: Between Victims and Offenders, Comments on Decision in re Labor Dispute 42650-06-14 John Doe v. Taavura Holdings Ltd (co-authored with Michal Alberstein), 32(3) MEHKAREI MISHPAT (Bar-Ilan Law Studies) 1137 (2020 in Hebrew).
2. In the Shadow of the Law: Applying Therapeutic Approaches to Sexual Harassment Conflicts in the Context of #MeToo, 24(1) PEPPERDINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW JOURNAL, 227 (2024).
3. The Adoption of Alternatives: Alternative Justice in cases of compulsory adoption of children (Accepted, Family Court Review, 2024).
4. The Unheard Voices of Mothers and Fathers with Disabilities in the Adjudication of Forced Adoption of Children in Israel (under review, co-authored with Anat Herbst-Debby).
5. “One Day She will knock on the Door, Don’t Worry, She will Come” – Mothers who’s Children were Surrendered for Adoption Tell Their Stories – a Feminist Perspective to Adoption of Children’s Practice in Israel (in process).