Postdoctoral Fellow Inbar Cohen Name ED of Child
and Youth Rights Program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights
Former post-doctoral fellow Dr. Inbar Cohen was named Executive Director of the Child and Youth Rights Program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Inbar earned her PhD in Criminology at the University of Haifa and was a member of the Grad Team for leading doctoral students. The new Program in Child and Youth Rights will be the leading academic-research program of its kind in Israel, with the goal of furthering research and teaching on child and youth rights in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The Program will be supported by an international advisory board and will seek to establish close research ties with senior researchers and leading international academic institutions in the field. One of the Program’s central areas of focus will be the implementation of the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Another emphasis of the program is on the utilization of interdisciplinary research methods.
Inbar earned her PhD in Criminology at the University of Haifa. She holds a BSW from the University of Haifa and an MA in NGO management and in Criminology from the Hebrew University. Her research areas are therapeutic jurisprudence, critical criminology, and critical discourse analysis, specifically the interchange between behavioral sciences and the law. Her dissertation focused on the implementation of mental health knowledge in sexual assault criminal proceedings and the radical change it causes to the legal discretion, turning it to "theralegal" discretion. In her postdoctoral studies Dr. Cohen focused on Problem-Solving courts in Israel and the US. Her research at Bar-Ilan University focused on the necessity of the adversary tension in the Israeli Community Courts. Her research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore working with Professor Corey Shdaimah and the Community Justice and Equity Initiative (CJaE) examined therapeutic interventions practiced in Prostitution Diversion Programs in Philadelphia. Inbar was the Director of the Socio-legal Clinic for Youth and Young Adults at the Haim Stricks Faculty of Law for ten years. Previously she worked as a social worker with children and youth facing mental health problems and criminal offending, and headed the Criminal Process Assistance Project at the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Center.