Ruth Halperin-Kaddari
legal scholar
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari (רות הלפרין-קדרי; born 15 May 1966) is an Israeli legal scholar and women's rights advocate specializing in family law, feminist legal theory, and international women's rights. She is a full professor at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law and the founding academic director of the Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women. From 2006 to 2018 she served on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), twice as its Vice-Chair. She was among the first recipients of the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award in 2007.
Early life and education
Halperin-Kaddari is the daughter of Menachem Zvi Kaddari, a noted linguist and expert on ancient Semitic languages who served as rector of Bar-Ilan University. She studied law at Bar-Ilan University, graduating with an LL.B. in 1989. She subsequently earned an LL.M. in 1990 and a Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) in 1993, both at Yale Law School, where her doctoral dissertation examined the interaction between religious systems of adjudication and the secular legal system.
Academic career
Halperin-Kaddari joined the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, where she has taught family law, feminist perspectives on law, women and religion, and international women's rights. She served as an advisor to the Prime Minister's Office on the status of women in Israel, and as a member of the Committee on Family and Rabbinical Courts' Jurisdiction at the Ministry of Justice.
In December 2024 she received an honorary degree from Brandeis University.
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