Professor of Law Emerita
Pnina Lahav teaches constitutional law, political and civil liberties, and comparative law. In 2020, she will teach a comparative seminar on the U.S. and Israel’s constitutional systems of government. Professor Lahav served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was also a Religion Fellow at the Boston University School of Theology. Professor Lahav has published scores of articles on topics varying from freedom of expression to national security, the status of women and the controversy over the Women of the Wall. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century (University of California Press, 1997) and is presently completing a gendered biography of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister. She is the recipient of the Melton Prize for excellence in teaching from Boston University School of Law.