Prof. Dafna Hacker

Faculty of Law Prof. Hacker is a legal scholar and a sociologist and is a member of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanities. She received her LL.B. from the Hebrew University and her LL.M. from American University Washington College of Law, graduating summa cum laude, and holds a Ph.D., summa cum laude, from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. She has received numerous grants and prizes, including research grants from the Israel Science Foundation and a nomination to the Israeli Academy of Science Young Scholars in Humanities and Social Science Forum. Prof. Hacker has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Hong Kong University, the University of Warsaw, and a visiting researcher at King’s College London.

Prof. Hacker’s socio-legal research focuses on the intersection of law, families and gender and provides empirical as well as normative insights in relation to post-divorce parental arrangements, inheritance conflicts, filial piety towards elder parents, and transnational families.