Role: Associate Lecturer, College of Law and Business
Ramat Gan, Israel

  Contact: shellykr@clb.ac.il

  Research Interests:
Inheritance Law | Trusts and Estates | Property | Intergenerational Cohabitation | Vulnerability Theory

 

Shelly Kreiczer Levy is an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) at the College of Law and Business, in Ramat Gan, Israel. She holds an LL. B. (2004) and a PhD (2009) from Tel Aviv University law school. She clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice, Aharon Barak, and was a visiting researcher at Yale Law School (2008). Her research interests are located at the intersection of property law and family law, and she is particularly interested in the potential of property institutions to provide a progressive vision for the family. She specializes in inheritance law, trusts and estates, the family home and intergenerational cohabitation, and most recently, she has been working on the effect of the sharing economy on property theory. Her publications include The Informal Property Rights of Boomerang Children in the Home 74 Maryland Law Review 127 (2014), Deliberative Accountability Rules: Promoting Accountability in Inheritance Law 45 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 937 (2012), and The Mandatory Nature of Inheritance 53 American Journal of Jurisprudence 105 (2008).

While at Emory, Shelly worked on two projects. The first deals with intergenerational cohabitation and the vulnerability of people who live with the owner but have no formal property rights. In particular, she plans to work on intergenerational cohabitation in the context of elder law. The second project deals with death and vulnerability. It targets the vulnerabilities of owners, family members and potential recipients facing death, and ties it to the theory of succession law.