Lecturers Page Dr. Nourit Zimerman

Dr. Nourit Zimerman

Dr. Zimerman joined the law school at Sapir Academic College in 2017. Prior to that she was the director for the ERC funded research project on judicial conflict resolution. 

Dr. Zimerman earned her JSD and LLM from New York University, and a degree in Law (LLB) and the Humanities from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 

Her areas of research are courts, theory of procedure, civil procedure, conflict resolution and legal ethics. Dr. Zimerman specializes in qualitative research methods and her studies are based on courtroom observations, interviews, as well as content analysis of legal documents. 

Dr. Zimerman regularly participates in international conferences, and has been teaching in various institutions including Bar Ilan, Tel-Aviv and Hebrew Universities. 

 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Courts
  • Civil Procedure
  • Legal Ethics
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Qualitative Empirical Legal Studies
  • Law and Society

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפד

Research

Theory of Procedure; Courts; Lawyers' Ethics; Conflict Resolution; Qualittive Empirical Legal Studies. 

Awards

Publications

Nourit Zimerman & Tom Tyler, Between Access to Counsel and Access to Justice: A Psychological Perspective, 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 473, 2010.

Nourit Zimerman, Procedure as Relationship, in: Procedures (Talia Fisher & Issachar Rozen Zvi, eds.) 2014 (Hebrew)

Michal Alberstein & Nourit Zimerman, Constructive Plea Bargaining, 32 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, 2017

Edite Ronnen, Nourit Zimerman, Michal Alberstein, Michal Rom and Ronit Cohen, Empirical Research on Judges’ Courtroom Settlement Activities: Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas,  24 Hamishpat, 2018 (Hebrew) 

Amos Gabrieli, Michal Alberstein and Nourit Zimerman, Authority Based Mediation: Law in the Shadow of Mediation, 24 Hamishpat, 2018 (Hebrew)

 

Presentations

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