Netta Barak-Corren is a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and Haim H. Cohn Chair in Human Rights at Hebrew University Law School. Barak-Corren is a legal scholar and cognitive scientist, focusing on empirical and behavioral analysis of constitutional, public, and international law, and the intricate interactions between law and society. She is a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, the inaugural European Research Council Ambassador to Israel, an Elected Member of Israel Young Academy, and a Nootbaar Religious Freedom Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Law. Previously, she taught at Chicago Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and was a visiting fellow at the Edmund & Lily Safra Center for Ethics in Harvard and Princeton's University Center for Human Values, cross-affiliated with the Law Group at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs.
Barak-Corren received her degrees in law and cognitive science from the Hebrew University. She then clerked for the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish, and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard.