Michal Tamir

Michal Tamir was born in 1970 in Tirat Carmel

Michal Tamir was born in Tirat Carmel in 1970 to parents of Iraqi origin. She attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa from first to twelfth grade. She lives in Tel Aviv.

She earned her law degree at the University of Haifa in 1995 and her master's degree at the Hebrew University in 1999, graduating first in her class both times. She received her doctorate from the Hebrew University in 2005. Her thesis dealt with selective enforcement and was supervised by former Supreme Court Justice Yitzhak Zamir.

She interned with Justice Zamir in 1995 to 1996 and joined the Israel Bar Association in 1996. In 1997 she was a legal assistant to Supreme Court Justice Dorit Beinisch. She did postdoctoral work at New York University in 2005 to 2006 and was a research fellow there in 2012 to 2013.

She is a professor at the Academic College of Science and Law and teaches at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. Her book on selective enforcement appeared in 2008, and a second book on state auditing appeared in 2009. She led the Israeli Law and Society Association from 2017 to 2019 and was a visiting professor at Berkeley from 2021 to 2023.

She has been active against the judicial reform proposed by Israel's 37th government.