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Keren Weinshall (Margel)

Katia & Hans Guth-Dreyfus Lecturer in Conflict Resolution and Law Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, keren.weinshall@mail.huji.ac.il Curriculum Vita – July 2017

Academic Appointments:

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law Associate Professor (senior lecture), 2014-present The Israel Democracy Institute, Proportionality in Public Policy ERC research group Research Fellow, 2017-present Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany Visiting Professor, summer 2015

Harvard Law School, Harvard University Visiting Researcher, 2009-2010

Professional Experience: Israeli Young Academy of Sciences [A forum of 32 Young Scholars elected from all universities and disciplines by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities] Member, 2017 – present The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, The Council of Europe National Expert representing the State of Israel, 2012-2014

Israeli Courts Research Division, The Supreme Court

Director, 2010-2014

Law and Constitution Committee, The Knesset Attorney, Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the Knesset , 2004-2007

Education:

Ph.D., 2012 Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

M.A., 2007 Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ranked 1st in the P.S. Department and in the top 1% of Social Sciences’ Faculty Rector's list, 2007

LL.B. (magna cum laude), 2003 Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University Dean’s List, 2002

B.A. (magna cum laude) As part of a double major program, 2003 Political Science Department, Tel Aviv University Rector's List, 2002

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List of Publications

Book: 1. Keren Weinshall-Margel, Law and Ideology in Supreme Court Decision-Making: A Comparative and Quantitative Analysis (Hebrew University Sacher press, 2016). * received the 2016 Gorny prize for young researcher’s scholarship in public law from the Israeli Association of Public Law.

Refereed Articles:

2. Keren Weinshall, Udi Sommer & Ya’acov Ritov, Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts. Regulation & Governance (forthcoming 2017). 3. Keren Weinshall & Ifat Taraboulos, Litigation Costs and Cost Shifting Practices, Hebrew University Law Review (forthcoming, 2017).

4. Alon Klement & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Cost Benefit Analysis of Class Action: an Israeli Perspective. 172 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 75 (2016).

5. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Inbal Galon, Cause and Effect in Sentencing, 37 Tel Aviv University Law Review, 221 (2016).

6. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Alon Klement, Class Action Litigation in Practice, 46 Hebrew University Law Review, 709 (2016).

7. Keren Weinshall-Margel, Inbal Galon & Ifat Taraboulos, Creating a Case Weight Index for Measuring Judicial Workload, 44 Hebrew University Law Review, 769 (2015).

8. Oren Gazal-Ayal & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Does the Prosecution Call all the Shots? The Limited Extent of Prosecutorial Power in the Israeli Criminal Justice System 44 Hebrew University Law Review, 835 (2015).

9. Yigal Mersel & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Establishing a Judiciary Based Research Center – the Israeli Experience, 2 International Journal for Judicial Education and Training, 35 (2014).

10. Keren Weinshall-Margel, Attitudinal and Neo-Institutional Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical and Comparative Perspective from Israel, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 556 (2011).

* received an award for Best Graduate Student Paper in the Social Sciences, Israel 2008.

11. Keren Weinshall-Margel & John Shapard, Overlooked Factors in the Analysis of Parole Decisions, 108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 833 (2011) [Research Note].

12. Menachem Hofnung & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Judicial Setbacks, Material Gains: Terror Litigation at the Israeli High Court of Justice, 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 664 (2010).

13. Michal Shamir & Keren Margel, Perceptions of Threat and Disqualification of Lists and Candidates for the Knesset – from Yardour to the 2003 Elections, 8 Law and Government, 119 (2005).

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Refereed Chapters in Collections:

14. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Michal Shamir, The Political Dynamics of the Right to Be Elected in the Israeli Democracy, in Elections in Israel – 2013 (Shamir ed., 2015).

15. Menachem Hofnung & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Judicial Rejection as Substantial Relief, in Courts and Terrorism: Nine Nations Balance Rights and Security (Volcansek & Stack eds., 2010, Cambridge University Press).

16. Michal Shamir & Keren Margel, Disqualification of Political Party Lists and Candidates for the Knesset – Were the 2003 Elections Unique?, in Elections in Israel – 2003 (Arian & Shamir eds., 2004).

Work In Progress

17. Christoph Engel, Alon Klement & Keren Weinshall, The Diffusion of Legal Innovations: A Case Study of Class Actions.

18. Keren Weinshall & Ifat Taraboulos, Plaintiff - Defendant Asymmetries? The Case of Pro-Plaintiff Cost Shifting in Israeli Trial Courts.

19. Keren Weinshall, Judging Judicial Workloads: An Empirical Analysis. 20. Keren Weinshall & Avishai Mandelbaum, Service-Engineering Perspective to the ‘Production of Justice’.

Other Scientific Publications

21. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Ifat Taraboulos, Continuances of Hearings in the Israeli Court System, Israeli Courts Research Division (September 2013), available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/Research%20Division/doc/Research7.pdf

22. Oren Gazal-Ayal, Inbal Galon & Keren Weinshall-Margel, Conviction and Acquittal Rates in Israel, Israeli Courts Research Division (May 2012), available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/Research%20Division/doc/Research1.pdf

23. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Ifat Taraboulos, A Comparative Review of Cost Shifting Practices in Civil Litigation - Towards an Empirical Study in Israel (February 2012), available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/Research%20Division/doc/Research5.pdf

24. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Sharon Hershenson, Auto Damage and Subrogation Claims in Israel, Israeli Courts Research Division (March 2011), available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/Research%20Division/doc/Research2.pdf

25. Keren Weinshall-Margel & Talia Yehuda, Reliability of Data From the Israeli Cases Routing and Online Management Software, Israeli Courts Research Division (June 2011), available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/Research%20Division/doc/Research3.pdf

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Selected Grants, Awards and Fellowships (non-exhaustive list):

Israel Science Foundation (ISF) Individual Research Grant (Grant 1404/17), Judging Judicial Workloads: An Empirical Analysis of the ‘Production of Justice’ ($190,000), 2017-2020.

Israeli Centers for Research Excellence and Israeli Science Foundation (Grant 1821/12), Center for Empirical Legal Studies ($180,000), 2014-2018.

Katia & Hans Guth-Dreyfus Lectureship in Conflict Resolution and Law ($10,000 per year), 2015-present.

Gorny prize for young scholar in public law, Israeli Association of Public Law, 2016.

Birk Prize for Distinguished Research in the Field of Law, 2016.

Book Completion Grant, Hebrew University ($1,800), 2015.

Golda Meir Fellowship, 2014.

Rector scholarship - Extended Fellowship for outstanding Ph.D. students, Hebrew University 2007-2010.

Herzog Center for Middle East Studies Award, 2009.

US Society for Empirical Legal Studies Grant Award, 2009.

First place award in the Best Paper Competition of the International Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations & Public Policy held in Israel, 2008.

The Philosophy and Law Forum Scholarship, Hebrew University 2007.

Rector Prize for "Best M.A. Social Sciences Faculty Student", Hebrew University 2007.

Rector Scholarship for outstanding M.A. students , Hebrew University 2006.

Dean’s List Award in the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University 2002.

Rector Prize for "Best B.A. Social Sciences Faculty Student", Tel Aviv University 2002.

Selected Conference Presentations and Workshops:

Invited Lectures (non-exhaustive list):

“Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision Making” Keynote Lecture in Empirical Legal Studies Workshop (EUR-UvA-UL), Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, May 2017.

“Equal in the Eyes of the Law? Pro-Plaintiff Cost Shifting in Civil Procedures” Bonn Law & Economics Workshop, Bonn University, Bonn, July 2017.

“Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts” Faculty Center for Law and Business, Faculty Seminar, March 2017.

"Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts" Constitution in Trial Courts Workshop, Bar-Ilan, January 2017.

“Judging Judicial Workloads: An Empirical Analysis“ Regulating Judges Conference, Haifa University, December 2016.

“Empirical Legal Studies” The Ministry of Justice – Institute of Legal Training for Attorneys and Legal Advisers, Jerusalem, May 2016.

“Sentencing” The Institute for Lawyers' Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, April 2016; “Empirical Legal Studies in the Service of Judges and Judging” the Israeli Institute of Advanced

Judicial Studies, Neve-Ilan, January 2016.

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"Cost Benefit Empirical Analysis of Class Action Litigation" lecture in Seminar on New Institutional Economics, Edinburgh, June 2015.

“Cause and Effect in Sentencing” Faculty Seminar, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, January 2015.

“Israel’s Sentencing Reform” Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Law and Economics Colloquium, Tel-Aviv, February 2014.

“Establishing a Judiciary Based Research Center “the Israeli Institute of Advanced Judicial Studies, Neve-Ilan, January 2013.

"Empirical Aspects of Courts as Representative Institutions", lecture in the Workshop of the Law, Justice and Society Cluster, Oxford University, October 2012.

"Israel's Court System", European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), Strasbourg, June 2012.

"Discarding Old Boundaries between Law and Politics – Scaling Attitudinal Courts" Researchers Colloquium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, March 2010.

“The Politics of Religion in the Israeli Supreme Court” lecture in the University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, January 2010.

"Terror and the HCI – Overt and Covert Aspects" public keynote lecture in the University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, January 2010.

"Is the Attitudinal Model Relevant Outside the US?" Researchers Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, October 2009.

Conference Lectures (non-exhaustive list):

“Judging Judicial Workloads” Annual Public Law Association Israel I-CON-S, Bar Ilan, March 2017. “Empirically Testing Judicial loads and their Implications" Israeli Law and Society Association

Annual Meeting, Netanya, February 2017. "Empirically Testing Judicial Workloads and their Implications" International Legal Ethics

Conference VII, New-York, July 2016. “Plaintiff - Defendant Asymmetries? The case of pro-plaintiff cost shifting in Israeli trial courts”

Annual Public Law Association Israel I-CON-S, Jerusalem, May 2016. “Cost Benefit Analysis of Class Action: an Israeli Perspective” Israeli Law and Society Association

Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, April 2016. "Litigation Costs and Cost Shifting Practices” Conference in Honor of retired Chief Justice Grunis,

Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv, June 2015. "Empirically Testing Judicial Workloads and their Implications” Cornell-TAU Empirical Legal

Conference, Tel Aviv, May 2015. "Decision-making in Judicial Versus Political Institutions – An Empirical Case Study of Inter-

Institutional Dynamics" Judicial Discretion Symposium, Herzliya, March 2014. "Why do Losers Go to Court? The Hidden Benefits of Public Litigation" Israel Political Science

Association Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, May 2013. "Does Decision Fatigue Explain Israeli Parole Decisions" Cornell-TAU Empirical Legal Conference,

Tel Aviv, May 2013. "Creating a Case Weight Index for Measuring Judicial Workload" Closing session of the Israeli

Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Jerusalem, May 2013. "Does the Prosecution Call all the Shots? The Limited Extent of Prosecutorial Power in the Israeli

Criminal Justice System" Drapkin Conference, The Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University, March 2013.

“Is the Attitudinal Model Relevant Outside the U.S.?” Midwest Political Science Conference, Chicago, April 2010.

"Political versus Judicial Decision Making” Association for Israel Studies, Toronto, May 2010. "Attitudinal Model Versus Neo-Institutional Approach to Supreme Court Decision- Making: Israel

as Compared to the US", Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, June 2008.

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Competitive Peer-Review Conference Lectures:

“Equal in the Eyes of the Law? Pro-Plaintiff Cost Shifting in Civil Procedures”, Empirical Legal Studies in Asia (CELSA), Taipei, June 2017.

"A Micro-Macro Gauge of Ideological Effects on Judicial Decision Making” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (CELSE), Amsterdam, June 2016.

"Cost Benefit Analysis of Class Action: an Israeli Perspective” Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2015), Saint Louis, October 2015.

"Comparing Attitudinal Decision Making in High Courts" Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2014), Berkeley, November 2014.

"Fighting Terror at the HCJ", Empirical Legal Studies Annual Conference, California, November 2009.

"Overt and Covert Aspect of the Israeli Supreme Court Decisions on Terror and Human rights", Minerva Center for Human Rights Annual Meeting, Tel-Aviv, December 2008.

Academic Activities and Services

Reviewer for (non-exhaustive list):

Journal of Law and Courts (2017);

Law & Ethics of Human Rights (2017);

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2016);

Law and Society Review (2016);

Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2016);

Tel Aviv University Law Review (2015);

Hebrew University Law Review (2015, 2016);

Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) Research Grants (2012, 2014, 2015);

Israel Law Review (2014);

Law and Policy (2013);

Law and Contemporary Problems (2012);

Regulation and Governance (2010).

Conferences Co-Organized:

SELS Global Junior Empirical Legal Scholars Workshop, 2015, Jerusalem;

Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Public law 2015, Jerusalem;

Conference in Honor of Chief Justice Grunis Retirement 2015, Jerusalem.

Member of Conference Program Committees:

Israeli Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2017,Bar-Ilan;

International Constitutional Law Conference – Israel (ICON-S), 2016, Jerusalem;

Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting 2015, Quebec;

Israeli Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2015, Haifa.

Co-founder and co-manager of the Israeli Empirical Legal Studies list server, 2014-present.

Board member of the Israeli Law and Society Association (ILSA), 2008 – 2010, 2016-present. Editorial Board member of the Israeli Public Law Association Blog (ICON-S-IL Blog) 2017-present.

Editorial Board member of Tel Aviv Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat), 2001-2002.