Lecture: Levy-Uriel, Diversity in the Judiciary, the Legal Profession and Legal Education in Israel (SOAS, Dec 10, 2014)

SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies  

EVENING LECTURE PROGRAMME

Diversity in the Judiciary, the Legal Profession and Legal Education in Israel –

An Empirical Analysis

Yael Levy-Ariel, UCL

Wednesday 10 December 2014 – 5.30pm

B104, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

The interest in judicial diversity and its possible implications is not new. Scholarly and public debate emerged parallel to developments in the field of Judicial Studies. In Israel, claims about the judiciary not being diverse enough and failing to reflect the heterogeneity of Israeli society have been expressed frequently. However, there is little coherent and robust evidence to support (or contradict) these claims. The purpose of this research is to address the key issues arising in the context of judicial diversity in Israel: what is the current composition of the Israeli judiciary in terms of the background characteristics of judges? To what extent does the judiciary represent Israeli society? Do Israeli law students and members of the legal profession have the same demographic characteristics as the judges? And how do judges, lawyers and law students in Israel perceive judicial diversity?

This is an empirical socio-legal study, which seeks to map the current judiciary in Israel, and to analyse its composition and the possible factors influencing it. It focuses on the background characteristics of presiding judges, as well as the ‘pool’ from which the future judges of Israel are likely to be appointed (i.e. legal practitioners and law students in Israel). The lecture will present the three empirical designs that were used in order to analyse the Israeli case of diversity, including the most recent findings of large-scale survey questionnaires that some 3,000 Israeli lawyers and law students participated in recently.

All Welcome

 

This event is free and there is no need to book

 

 

Calendar of Events: SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies Evening Lectures Series, Term 1, 2014 (London)

SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies Evening Lectures Series, Term 1, 2014

Please find below the programme for the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies Evening Lectures Series which will run on the following Wednesdays at 17:30-19:00, in the Brunei Gallery room B104 (unless otherwise stated): 
October 8 Dr. Hila Zaban (SOAS)

“Gentrification and High-Status Immigration in a Jerusalem Neighbourhood”
October 22 Leonie Fleischmann (City University London)

“Beyond Paralysis: The Transformation of Israeli Peace Activism”
November 12 Dr. Lior Libman (UCL)

“Utopia, Trauma, Icon: Representation of the Kibbutz in 1950s’ Israel”

 

November 20 

“Shadow of Baghdad”: Film Screening and Panel Discussion, will be held at KLT
November 26 Dr. Yonatan Sagiv (SOAS)

“The Gift of Debt: Agnon’s Economics of Money, God and the Real Other”

 

December 10 Yael Levy-Ariel (UCL)

“Judicial Diversity in Israel: An Empirical Analysis of Judges, Lawyers and Law Students”
Programme is attached also as pdf (click here).

Please see our website for further details about these and other events.

 

All are warmly welcomed and entrance is free of charge.