Shira Halbertal is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she also earned her LL.M. degree in 2024. She holds an LL.B. and B.A. in the humanities (“Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Summa Cum Laude).
Shira clerked for the Deputy Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and later worked as a litigation lawyer specializing in class actions. She taught legal writing and research at Hebrew University and worked as a research assistant in the fields of administrative and constitutional law, as well as family law and law and literature.
Throughout her studies and before, Shira has volunteered in different educational settings with at-risk youth, teaching law, language skills, and math in underprivileged high schools. In addition, as part of her LL.B., she has done clinical work with youth on parole.
Shira’s research interests are moral philosophy, philosophy of law, criminal law, and constitutional law. Her dissertation focuses on the nature of obligations and the nexus between obligations and human dignity. She aims to research the importance of obligations and the moral and legal implications of the denial of obligations.
Doctoral Committee:
Daniel Markovits (Chair)
Samual Moyn (Reader)
Gideon Yaffe (Reader)
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2024
LL.B., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021
B.A., Humanities (Amirim Honors Program in the Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2021