Ayelet Blecher-Prigat

Prof. Ayelet Blecher-Prigat is the Dean of the Law School at the Academic College of Law & Science. Her academic career spans roles as co-director of the Center for the Rights of the Child and the Family, and co-editor of The Family in Law Journal, an interdisciplinary Hebrew-language publication.

• Education: LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University (1997); LL.M. (Kent Scholar) and JSD from Columbia Law School (1999, 2005).
• Prior Role: Clerked for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Strasberg-Cohen.

Research Focus: Family law, children's rights, inheritance law, and law-religion intersections in Israel. Her work explores same-sex marriage, co-parenting, wills interpretation, and privacy rights within familial contexts.

• Key Themes: Legal recognition of non-traditional relationships, financial obligations in co-parenting, gender equality in family law, and religious-secular legal tensions.
• Notable Contributions: Analysis of nonmarriage frameworks, feminist reinterpretation of trusts and estates, and comparative studies of marriage and cohabitation.

Academic Leadership: Co-directed the Center for the Rights of the Child and the Family; instrumental in advancing interdisciplinary family law scholarship in Israel.