Dr. Tamar Megiddo

Dr. Tamar Megiddo is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the College of Law and Business. She also serves as a research fellow at the TraffLab Research Project at Tel Aviv University and at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa. She has received her Doctorate and Master’s degree in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law (J.S.D. ’16, LL.M. 12’), and her bachelor’s from the Hebrew University (LL.B. ’09). Dr. Megiddo’s previous fellowships include the Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University (2017-2018) and the GlobalTrust (ERC) Research Project’s doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University (2015-2017). Dr. Megiddo’s research explores the interaction between the individual and the law, focusing primarily on public international law and law & technology. Drawing on social, political and legal philosophy, her research studies how technology and law, including international law, operate to empower and constrain individuals. Her scholarship as been published in leading academic journals, both peer-reviewed and student-edited, including the Harvard International Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law and Theoretical Inquiries in Law, and in edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.