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Professor Anat Scolnicov is a legal scholar specializing in Law, State and Religion; Feminist Legal Theory; and Public Law and International Law. She holds a professorship at the University of Winchester's Faculty of Law, Crime and Justice. Previously, she was Director of Studies in Law at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Public Law at Cambridge. Her career began as a litigation attorney with the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), focusing on constitutional and civil rights cases.
Her research explores intersections between religion, state authority, and human rights, including analyses of religious courts’ roles in Israel and the tensions between secular governance and religious law. Notable contributions include critiques of discriminatory practices in religious family law and advocacy for constitutional protections of religious freedom. Recent work addresses Israel’s ongoing constitutional crisis, particularly the erosion of judicial independence and democratic safeguards.
In 2023, she participated in Oxford’s Israel Studies Podcast, discussing state-religion dynamics. Her academic publications span constitutional law, legal philosophy, and feminist jurisprudence. She actively supervises PhD students in areas like comparative constitutional law, religious law governance, and human rights frameworks.
Education: LLB (Hebrew University), LLM (Harvard, with Fulbright), PhD (London School of Economics). Awards: Cited twice by Israel’s Supreme Court for impactful scholarship. Current roles include expert commentary on Israeli legal reforms and advocacy against legislative encroachments on judicial review.
