Prof. Lotem Perry-Hazan is a Full Professor of Law and Education in the Department of Leadership and Policy in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa. Her fields of research are education law and policy and children’s rights in educational systems. Many of her studies focus on Haredi education in Israel and worldwide. Her research methods combine legal analysis with empirical research methods examining how law impacts educational policy and school educational practices, and how students and educators perceive rights within educational systems.
Prof. Perry-Hazan completed her Bachelor’s degree (2004, summa cum laude) and her Ph.D. (2011, excellent grade) at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa. She completed her Master’s degree at New York University (NYU) School of Law in 2006, where she received the Vanderbilt Scholarship for excellence. From 2004 to 2005, she clerked at the Supreme Court under Justice Dorit Beinisch.
Prof. Perry-Hazan was elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy (2021–2025) and headed the Academy’s Diversity Cluster and the Haredi Integration in Academia Team. She serves as an editorial board member for Critical Studies in Education (since 2020) and as a member of the leading team of the Research Network on Children’s Rights in Education at the European Educational Research Association (since 2021).
At the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa, Prof. Perry-Hazan serves as Vice Dean for Research (since 2022).Between 2014 and 2020, she headed the Educational Systems Management track, and between 2018 and 2021, she headed the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education. Alongside her work at the University of Haifa, Prof. Perry-Hazan has been a visiting researcher at the Center for Law and Education Policy at the University of Antwerp (2012), the Center for Civic and Moral Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (2014), the Youth Research Centre at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (2018), the Department of Education at the University of Bologna (2023),and the Center for Critical Education against Antisemitism at the University of Würzburg (2025). She has been invited to present her research at other leading universities, including the University of Oxford, University College London,Columbia University, and the University of Geneva.
Prof. Perry-Hazan has published over 60 articles. Her research has been published in leading international journals in the study of education, including Review of Educational Research (ranked 1st in education in its publication year),Educational Researcher, Journal of Education Policy, and Journal of Teacher Education. Articles she has published in the field of law and society have also appeared in leading international journals, including Law & Society Review and Social & Legal Studies. She has also published a book and articles in Hebrew, most of which deal with the rights of Haredi students. Some of her studies have won research grants, including three Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grants (2015–2018, 2019–2023, 2023–2027), a Ministry of Science research grant (2019–2022), a Rothschild-Caesarea Foundation research grant (2019–2020), a National Insurance Institute research grant (2023–2026), and a grant to establish an international network for the study of education for rights from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) (2022–2024).
Prof. Perry-Hazan is a member of the academic advisory committee for the Haredi District in the Ministry of Education,and has previously served as a member of a think tank advising the Council for Higher Education on the integration of Haredi individuals in academia, as well as a Ministry of Education committee for setting rules for differential school funding.
