Adv. Lidror Ziv
Harry Radzyner Law School
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Adv. Ziv Lidror holds an LL. B and LL.M degree in Law, specializing in public and international law, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She worked as Justice Edna Arbel’s legal assistant at the Israeli Supreme Court. In 2012 she joined the Legal Clinics staff at Reichman University, first as a tutor at the legal aid clinic for Holocaust survivors and at the "Street Law” Legal Clinic, and later as a head of the “Street Law” clinic. In addition to directing the clinic and teaching the course that is taught alongside the clinic’s field work (in the fields of social lawyering, law and poverty, youth law and rehabilitation), she teaches legal writing and critical reading courses, as well as a course on Rehabilitation Law. She developed, and now leads, the “Nekudot Zchut” (Credit) program - a joint course for prisoners and students on social-economic rights – the first academic course of its kind in Israel, that opened for the first time in 2018 (see details below).
About the Street Law clinic:
The purpose of the “Street Law” clinic is to introduce our law students to underprivileged populations who were exposed to the justice system from the other side - either as violators of the law or as victims. The idea behind the program is that legal knowledge has the power to bring social change and that a significant change is made with a holistic view between law and the fields of treatment and rehabilitation. In the framework of the clinic, the students prepare a weekly workshop for the participants, at the end of which they present a mock trial (or another event/project). It should be noted that following the Coronavirus crisis, the work model was adapted to the target populations and the crises and that some of the insights of the work during this period have been embraced, in particular in our work with people under house arrest and youth at risk in the Arab sector. The program operates in 8-10 centers a year, including prisons (unique cooperation for this program), the probation service, correctional institutions for youth at risk and a shelter for victims of domestic violence.
About the “Nekudot Zchut” (Credit) program – a joint course for prisoners and students on economic social and cultural rights:
The course, worth 4 credits (for all participants - prisoners and students alike), was founded with the understanding that there is an added value to academic learning that brings together different populations (in this case - the students and the prisoners) and to action-based learning. Adv. Lidror developed this course – dealing with the content of social-economic rights course where half the students are prisoners, and the other half are law students at Reichman University. All participants are required to go through a screening process that includes academic standards. In the first part of the course, the students learn the subject of social rights together, and in the second part, they are divided into teams and together they write and submit a research paper addressing policies related to economic social, and cultural rights. In the second Cohort of the program, the students were invited to present their policy papers to the President in the president’s residence. (For more details on the program - visit https://www.runi.ac.il/schools/law/special-programs/credits-program/ )
About the Rehabilitation Law course:
This course was developed based on insights from the above-mentioned courses’ fieldwork, and from research that focuses on concrete rehabilitation tools – rehabilitation through employment and academic studies. The course offers the students in the joint Law-Psychology program the opportunity to examine the effect of these tools and other rehabilitation methods over different groups, which Adv. Lidror suggests bringing together under the title of “rehabilitation law”.
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Ziv Lidror and Idan Portnoy “Thinking Outside the Box: Reducing Recidivism with Employment - Solutions Deviating from Criminal Law” Law and Business Volume 71 (2021)
:About the article (a translated abstract of the paper above)Written by adv. Ziv Lidror, Head of the “street Law” clinic and a lecturer at Reichman University in Herzliya, and Idan Portnoy, alumni of the ”Street Law” clinic and founder of the “Back to Society” organization – that connects employers who want to help released prisoners re-enter society. In the article, they offer rehabilitation through employment as a way of reducing recidivism, specifically through changing the policies to encourage employers to employ released prisoners. Many of the observations in the article were formed in light of the theoretical knowledge and practical work in the “Street Law” clinic. Following the publication of the article the authors intend to continue to promote these ideas, both in their work in the clinic and outside of it (as they have already done in front of the Employment forum for Offenders, the Internal Affairs Committee of the Knesset, and more).
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yediot ahronot weekend magazine
A mock trial in priosn - The Street Law Program
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Radzyner Law School Raises the Bar in Street Law Clinic
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Back to society - the project that tries to give prisoners another chance
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“Nekudot Zchut” (Credit) - A joint program for prisoners and students on social and economic rights