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Bio

Professor Hadar Aviram specializes in criminal justice, civil rights, law and politics, and social movements, and her research employs socio-legal perspectives and methodologies. She is the author of four award-winning books, the latest of which, FESTER (UC Press, 2024), examines the COVID-19 disaster in California’s correctional facilities. Prof. Aviram publishes, teaches, and speaks on domestic violence, behavioral perspectives on prosecutorial and defense behavior, unconventional family units, animal rights, elder abuse, public trust in the police, correctional policy and budgeting, violence reduction, parole hearings and conditions, the death penalty, theoretical trends in crime and punishment, and the history of female crime and punishment. She is currently expanding her expertise to Jewish Studies and Rabbinics and is working on a book-length project about the biblical carceral experience.

A former President of the Western Society of Criminology, Trustee of the Law and Society Association, and Book Review Editor of the Law & Society Review, Prof. Aviram is one of the leading voices in the state and nationwide on incarceration policy and scale and a frequent media commentator and analyst on politics, immigration, and criminal justice policy. Prof. Aviram’s extensive pro-bono work includes landmark cases involving prison and jail conditions and expertise as a consultant in activist defense. She is a member of the California and Israel Bars. Her pro-bono work earned her the Founders Award from the Western Society of Criminology, which is awarded for significant improvements to the quality of justice.

Prof. Aviram holds LL.B. and M.A. (criminology) degrees from Hebrew ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she studied as a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Intern. She is also a graduate student of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union and studying for rabbinical ordination. Prior to joining the Hastings faculty in 2007, she practiced as a military defense attorney in Israel and taught at Tel Aviv and Haifa Universities.

Education

• ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of California, Berkeley
  Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy 2005

• The Hebrew ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  M.A., Criminology 2001

• The Hebrew ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ
  LL.B., Law

Accomplishments

• Chancellor's Dissertation Award
  Awarded by the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of California, Berkeley. 2004

• Graduate Assembly Research Award
  Awarded by the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of California at Berkeley. 2003

• Herman Goode Award for Outstanding Student of Criminology
  Awarded by Hebrew ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ. 2001

• CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title
  Awarded to Cheap on Crime by the Academic Library Association 2015

• Rector's Award for Outstanding Graduate Student
  Awarded by Hebrew ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ. 2016

• 1066 Foundation Scholarship Award
  Awarded by UC Law SF for Scholarship and Research 2010

• Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence
  Awarded by UC Law SF 2010

Selected Scholarship

• Annual Review of Law and Social Science 2017

• Fordham Urban Law Journal 2015

• Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 2015

• Mississippi Sports Law Review 2014

• St. Johns Law Review 2014