Hila Keren

Hila Keren brings a unique global perspective on contracts and business law to the classroom, having studied, taught, and practiced law in Israel for more than two decades. She served on the Faculty of Law of her alma mater, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from 2005 until her appointment to Southwestern in Fall 2010. At Hebrew University, she taught basic and advanced courses in contracts as an Assistant Professor of Law and earned the Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2006, Professor Keren was elected by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities to be a member of its Young Researchers' Forum. Professor Keren was appointed Associate Dean for Research in 2019.

At Southwestern, Dean Keren teaches in the areas of contracts and business law. In addition to earning her LL.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Israel, Dean Keren completed two years of post-doctoral studies at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. During her studies, she was awarded the Birk Foundation Award for Distinguished Research in the Field of Law, the Alice Shalvi Scholarship for Original Feminist Legal Studies, the Rector's Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Students, and the Golda Meir Fellowship. She returned to UC Berkeley in 2007-2008 to teach Contracts and Challenges to Legal Rationality as a Visiting Professor.