Education
Ph.D., 2012
Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvard Law School, Harvard University Visiting Researcher, 2009-2010
M.A., 2007 (valedictorian),
Political Science Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ranked 1st in the P.S. Department and in the top 1% of Social Sciences' Faculty
Rector's list, 2007
LL.B. (magna cum laude), 2003
Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Dean's List, 2002
B.A. (magna cum laude) As part of a double major program, 2003
Political Science Department, Tel Aviv University
"Rector's List, 2002".
Representative publications
- Lee Epstein, Gunnar Grendstad, Urˇska Sadl & Keren Weinshall (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour, Oxford University Press, (expected 2023).
- Tamar Kricheli-Katz & Keren Weinshall, Judging Fast or Slow: The Effects of Reduced Caseloads on Gender- and Ethnic- Based Disparities in Case Outcomes, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (expected 2023).
- Christoph Engel & Keren Weinshall, Diffusion of Legal Innovations, 18 Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 139-153 (2022).
- Lee Epstein, Urška Šadl & Keren Weinshall, 69 The Role of Comparative Law in the Analysis of Judicial Behavior, American Journal of Comparative Law, 689–719 (2021).
- Lee Epstein & Keren Weinshall, The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior: A Comparative Perspective (monograph in Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics, and Politics), Cambridge University Press (2021).
- Keren Weinshall, Courts and Diversity: Normative Justifications and their Empirical Implications, 15(2) Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 187-220 (2021).
- Keren Weinshall & Lee Epstein, Developing 'Big Data' Infrastructure for Legal Analytics: Introducing the Israeli Supreme Court Database, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 416-434 (2020).
- Christoph Engel & Keren Weinshall, Manna from Heaven for Judges: Judges’ Reaction to a Quasi-Random Reduction in Caseload, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 722-751 (2020).
- Keren Weinshall, Udi Sommer & Ya’acov Ritov, Ideological Influences on Governance and Regulation: The Comparative Case of Supreme Courts, 12 Regulation & Governance, 315-427 (2018).
- Keren Weinshall-Margel, Attitudinal and Neo-Institutional Models of Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical and Comparative Perspective from Israel, 8 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 556-586 (2011).
- Keren Weinshall-Margel & John Shapard, Overlooked Factors in the Analysis of Parole Decisions, 108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 833-834 (2011).