Christine Hayes is a visiting professor (adjunct) of law and an affiliated scholar for the Brodie Center for Jewish and Israeli Law at Yale Law School. She is also the Sterling Professor Emerita in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Yale University and a research scholar and faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. Since her retirement from Yale in 2023, Hayes has served as the Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law at Harvard University Law School and the Gruss Visiting Professor in Jewish Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She has also taught in a visiting capacity at Tel Aviv University Law School and Reichman University Law School. Her areas of research and teaching include Talmudic studies, legal theory, and more. She is the author of “What’s Divine About Divine Law? Early Perspectives” (Princeton University Press, 2015) and many more books, edited volumes, anthologies, translations, and academic publications. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has received honorary doctorates from Lund University, Sweden, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
