Lecturers Page Dr. Nofar Yakovi- Gan Or

Dr. Nofar Yakovi- Gan Or

Dr. Nofar Yakovi-Gan Or is a lecturer at Sapir Academic College, School of Law.

Her research and teaching areas include Law & Reproduction, Health Law, Health & Technology, Family Law, Gender, and Bioethics.

Dr. Yakovi-Gan Or earned her doctoral and master's degrees at Columbia University Law School, where she was an E. David Fischman Scholar. Her dissertation examines the regulatory challenges posed by the emergence of various assisted reproductive technologies in both Israel and the U.S. She also holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Social Sciences (Magna Cum Laude).

Dr. Yakovi-Gan Or served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and Haifa University Faculty of Law, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley Faculty of Law. She also clerked for Justice (ret.) Edna Arbel at the Israeli Supreme Court. 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Law & Reproduction
  • Health Law
  • Health & Technology
  • Family Law
  • Gender
  • Bioethics

Teaching

In current lective year:
  • Law and Health: Regulatory Challenges
  • Law & Reproduction
  • Law and Health
  • Tort Law

Research

  • Law & Reproduction
  • Health Law
  • Health & Technology
  • Family Law
  • Gender
  • Bioethics

Awards

  • Dreyfus Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship (2023)
  • E. David Fischman Foundation Scholarship (2016-2022)
  • Columbia Law School, Norman E. Alexander Scholarship (2015-2016)

Publications

  • Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or & Shahar Lifshitz, Beyond the Deceased’s Presumed Wish: Toward a New Model For Posthumous Reproduction, 45 Iyunei Mishpat pp. 595-666, 2024
  • Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Men, Fatherhood, and the Regulation of Assisted Reproduction in Israel, 36 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family pp. 1-17, 2022
  • Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Going Solo: The Law and Ethics of Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 7 Journal of Law and the Biosciences pp. 1-24, 2020
  • Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Reproductive Dreams and Nightmares: Sperm Donation in the Age of At-Home Genetic Testing, 51 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal pp. 791-832, 2020
  • Nofar Yakovi Gan-Or, Securing Posterity: The Right to Postmortem Grandparenthood and the Problem for Law, 37 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law pp. 109-168, 2019

Presentations

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