Arianne Renan Barzilay

Prof. Arianne Renan Barzilay

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Short CV

Prof. Arianne Renan Barzilay is a Professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and is the Head of the International Center for Health, Law and Ethics at the University of Haifa. She earned her J.S.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law and her LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (magna cum laude).

Her research concerns the regulation of employment and family. She uses historical, socio-legal, and gender analysis in her work, and has written on topics such as gender in the gig economy, working time, the future of work, sex discrimination in employment and in the family, economic abuse, and the work-family conflict. Her fields of interest include the Future of Work, the Gig Economy, Workplace Regulation, Employment Equality, History of Regulation of Employment, Family Law, Economic Abuse, Feminist Theories and Histories, and Law and Political Economy.

Her scholarship has been published in various flagship law reviews worldwide, including specialized journals of top Universities such as Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, Cornell and Yale Law Schools. Her academic works are frequently presented in various workshops and conferences around the globe, and they have provided the basis for subsequent legislative initiatives. They have been cited in academic papers, governmental reports, the media, by courts (including the U.S. Supreme Court), and in the ILO’s landmark report on the future of work.

Prof. Renan Barzilay has received several prestigious research grants and accolades for her academic work, including the 2022 Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Scholarship, grants from the ISF (Israeli Science Foundation), MOST (Ministry of Science, for infrastructure in the social sciences), awards from the Institute of Legislative Research at the Hebrew University, the Israeli Council on Higher Education, Bar Ilan University Gender Studies program.

She teaches courses on employment discrimination law, labor and employment law, the future of work, family law, feminist theories, and economic inequality in the family. She’s been voted Outstanding Teacher (University-wide).

Prior to joining academia, she clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court, in the chambers of Justice Theodor Or, and worked at the law firms of S. Horowitz, and Bach, Arad, Scharf in Tel Aviv, and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York.

Publications▼

  1. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Overriding Overtime in Decentralized Work, 70 Villanova Law Review 421 (2025).
  2. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Cultivating Continued Control: Post-Seperation Abuse and Entrapped Legal Consciousness, Laws (2025)(with Einav Perry and Gil Rothschild-Elyassi).
  3. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Reflecting on Privacy's Perceived Omnipotence and the Lost Role of Equality in Regulating Working Time. Comparative. Labor Law and Policy Journal (forthcoming, 2025)
  4. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Overriding Overtime in Decentralized Work, Villanova Law Review (forthcoming 2025)
  5. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Responding to Economic Abuse: An Institutional Logics Analysis of Feminist Activism. Gender, Work, and Organizations (2025) (with Orly Benjamin, Dalit Yassour-Borocowich ).
  6. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Can Street Level Bureaucrats Assist with Material Resources? Naming, Trivializing and Privatizing Economic Abuse in Israel. Ethics and Social Welfare (2024) (with Orly Benjamin, Dalit Yassour-Borocowich, Karni Krigel).
  7. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Economic Abuse: Characteristics, Consequences and Coping,  34 Society and Welfare 560-577 (2023)(with Orly Benjamin, Dalit Yassour-Borocowich, Karni Krigel)
  8. Arianne Renan Barzilay, The Legal Aspects of New Families in Old Age, 17 Din U'Dvarim 125-180 (2023) (with Carmit Toledano , Israel Doron)
  9. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Undeclared Social Policy: Examining Three Occupational Identities in the Response to Survivors of Economic Abuse, 120 Social Security 99-130  (2023) (with Galit Bareket Danieli, Dalit Yassour-Borocowich, Orly Benjamin)
  10. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Women, Men and Covid-19: Gender in a Time of Crisis, 24 Mishpat U'Mimshal  331-357(2022)( with Noya Rimalt )
  11. Arianne Renan Barzilay, The Hour and Rest Law in the Age of Fragmented Labor, 17 Labor, Society and Law 63-88 (2022) (Hebrew)
  12. Arianne Renan Barzilay, A Feminist Perspective on Exhaustion of Rights in Social Security: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence,  113 Social Security 171-201(2021) (with Dalit Yassour-Borocowich, Orly Benjamin)
  13. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Data Analytics at Work: A View from Israel on Employee Privacy and Equality in the Age of Data-Driven employment Management, 40 Comp. Labor Law and Policy Journal 421 (2019).
  14. Arianne Renan Barzilay, The Technologies of Discrimination: How Platforms Cultivate Gender Inequality, 13 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 179 (2019).
  15. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Considering Children's Hunger in the Era of Bordered Globalization, International Journal of Law in Context (2019) (Cambridge University Press).
  16. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Discrimination without Discriminating? Learned Gender Inequality in the Labor Market and Gig Economy 28 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 545 (2019).
  17. Arianne Renan Barzilay, A Coalesced Effort: Behind the Scenes of Law and Equality, 10 Tel Aviv University Journal of Law and Social Change, 25 pages (2019; in Hebrew) (with Vardit Avidan).
  18. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Rights-Consciousness as an Object of Historical Inquiry: Revisiting the Constitution of Aspiration, 44 Law and Social Inquiry (2019) (with Ely Aahronson).
  19. Arianne Renan Barzilay, A Tale of Fragmentation and Intertwinement: The Israeli Family Law System Between the Sacred and the Secular in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Life 641-661(Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with Karin Carmit Yefet).
  20. Arianne Renan Barzilay, The Health/Care Divide: Breastfeeding in the New Millennium, 35 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 264-337 (2018) (with Pamela Laufer-Ukeles).
  21. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Power in the Age of In/Equality: Economic Abuse, Masculinities, and the Long Road to Marriage Equality, 51 Akron Law Review, 323-366 (2017). Reprinted in: Arianne Renan Barzilay, Power in the Age of In/Equality: Economic Abuse, Masculinities, and the Long Road to Marriage Equality, WOMEN AND THE LAW (Tracy Thomas, eds.) (2018).
  22. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Platform Inequality: Gender in the Gig Economy, 47 Seton Hall Law Review 393-431 (2017) (with Anat Ben David).
  23. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Between the Market and Regulation Following Bagatz Goren: Equal Pay, Sex Discrimination and Familial Responsibilities, 31 Bar Ilan University Law Review 343-378 (2017). (in Hebrew).
  24. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Economic Violence in the Family: Between Male Dominance and Imposed Masculinity? 39 Tel Aviv University Law Review 613-660 (2016) (in Hebrew) (with Shirley Youseri).
  25. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Parenting Title VII: Rethinking the History of the Sex Discrimination Prohibition, 28 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 55-102 (2016).
  26. Arianne Renan Barzilay, You’re on Your Own, Baby: Reflections on Capato’s Legacy, 46 Indiana Law Review 557-580 (2013).
  27. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Working Parents: Multidimensionalism and Working Class Social Feminism – A Theoretical Framework for Reconciling Work and Family in Israel, 35 Tel Aviv University Law Review 307-352 (2012) (in Hebrew).
  28. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Back to the Future: Introducing Constructive Feminism for the 21st Century - A New Paradigm for the Family and Medical Leave Act, 6 Harvard Law and Policy Review 407-435 (2012).
  29. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Labor Regulation as Family Regulation: Decent Work and Decent Families, 33 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 117-149 (2012).
  30. Arianne Renan Barzilay, Women at Work: Towards an Inclusive Narrative of the Rise of the Regulatory State, 31 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 169-209 (2008).

Education▼

  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
  • 2003-2008 J.S.D. New York University School of Law
  • 2002-2003 LL.M. New York University School of Law
  • 1995-1999 LL.B. Tel Aviv University School of Law (magna cum laude)

Research Areas▼

  • Gender Inequality
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Future of Work
  • Family Law
  • Economic Abuse
  • Work and Family

Additional Info▼

Fields of Intrests

  • Employment Equality
  • Law and Gender
  • Law of Work and Family
  • New Forms of Employment and the Future of Work
  • Family Law
  • Reproductive Rights and Technologies
  • Neglected Legal Histories
  • Feminist Theories
  • Working-Class Social Feminism