Producing Reproductive Rights: Determining Abortion Policy Worldwide

About Aliza Forman-RabinoviciUdi Sommer

Udi Sommer is Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. He has also taught political science at Columbia and SUNY. He is Chair of The Israel Young Academy and Head of the Center for the Study of the United States at Tel Aviv University. Sommer is the author of over twnenty articles in peer-reviewed journals and two books Supreme Court Agenda Setting (2014) and Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State (2016). He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the European Union Fulbright and NSF and was a finalist in the LSA 2nd Half-Century Project. Aliza Forman-Rabinovici is a Ph.D. candidate at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the intersection between gender and public policy and the role and impact of female leadership in politics. Forman Rabinovici has had articles published in top peer-reviewed journals and serves as the academic advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology's Council for the Advancement of Women as well as a policy researcher and advisor for major political parties and figures in Israel.