Visiting Assistant Professor
Professor Benjamin Shmueli received his PhD degree from Bar-Ilan University, where he also served as a teaching assistant for several years. His thesis, "Legal Intervention in Relationships between
Parents and Children: Corporal Punishment, False Imprisonment, and Neglect," was very well received. He was awarded the university president's scholarship for outstanding post-graduate students as
well as two other prizes for his research. He is a lecturer at Sha'arei Miahpat College, the manager of the Center for the Rights of the Child and Family, and the editor of a law journal
(translated as "Child and Family"). He is also a guest lecturer at the law faculties of Tel Aviv University, Bar Ilan University, and the Academic College of Netyana. His work is very
interdisciplinary, and in addition to law, he works in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and medical science. His research includes tort law, Jewish law and defamation, and relations between
parents and children. He also teaches in those areas. At Duke, one of his research areas will be the association between tort law and family law from the perspective of American law, e.g., civil
claims within the family, an area that is largely undeveloped in Israel.