About
Yael Cohen-Rimer serves as an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was an Affiliate of the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion at Harvard University during the 2022-2023 academic year. Her scholarly work critically examines legal frameworks through the lens of social inequality and marginalized identities.
Her research specializes in Poverty and Welfare Law, Financial Exclusion, and Socio-legal Studies, with particular focus on intersections between economic vulnerability and gender, ethnicity, culture, and geography. She employs interdisciplinary methodologies blending doctrinal legal analysis with social work, criminology, and public policy theories to investigate systemic constraints within legal institutions.
Dr. Cohen-Rimer's critical perspective extends to examining the roles and performances of legal professionals—including lawyers and judges—within existing legal structures. Her work challenges conventional approaches to law in action through empirical socio-legal investigation.
No scientific awards or fellowships are documented in the available source material.
While specific advising relationships and grant funding details remain undisclosed in the provided text, her affiliation with Harvard's Weatherhead Research Cluster indicates active participation in collaborative inequality research initiatives.
Her institutional engagement includes the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion at Harvard University for the 2022-2023 academic year, reflecting commitment to cross-institutional scholarly exchange on structural inequity.
