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Abigail Faust Sunny Kalev Noa Kwartaz Avraham
Recipient of the Gutwirth Foundation
Scholarship Recipient of the Wolf Foundation
Scholarship Recipient of the Colton Scholarship
Title: Why Bankruptcy Gets No Credit: The
Relation Between Consumer Credit Law
and Bankruptcy Law in the U.S., 1968-2010. Title: Adolescent’s privacy in the eyes
of parents and teenagers: protection,
disclosure, supervision and monitoring in
the digital age.
Description: In recent decades, a
growing body of research depicts a
close relationship between consumer
credit and personal bankruptcy as social
and economic phenomena. Yet, since
consumer credit law and bankruptcy law
are considered independent regulatory
realms, legislative reforms in each field have
developed separately. By closely analyzing
Congressional hearings on consumer credit
and consumer bankruptcy reform in the
1968-2010 period, Faust’s research explores
how the knowledge about the relation
between the two realms affects normative
discourse and legislative design in each
realm, and how the separation between
the realms affects the legislature’s ability to
create coherent and effective legislation.
Supervisors: Prof. Ron Harris and Prof.
Roy Kreitner.
Abigail says: “I am deeply moved and
grateful for the scholarship. Historical
research is, by nature, an extensive process,
and the scholarship has afforded me with
considerably more time to dedicate to
research.”
Description: Kalev’s study examines the
issue of youth privacy within the family in
the 21st century and in the online context,
focusing on two main aspects: parents’ use
of surveillance technologies to monitor
their adolescent children, and parents’
exposure of data regarding their children on
social media. The study examines, through
interviews, the practices and attitudes of
parents and adolescents on the issue. The
research seeks to conceptualize the issue
from a theoretical point of view, to analyze
it from a normative perspective, and to
examine the role of law in that context.
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Birnhack.
Sunny says: “I am honored to receive the
prize. Writing a doctorate dissertation is a
long and complex personal process and it’s
always nice to get recognition and know
that others see value in your research,
especially when it’s such a prestigious prize.
Beyond the personal aspect, it is important
to me that the issue of children’s privacy will
receive public awareness, and receiving the
prize is an important step in this respect.”
Title: Primary Legislation and the Knesset:
Changing Perspectives on the Israeli
Welfare State”.
Description: Kwartaz’s research examines
the legislative work of the Knesset
through a period of major changes in the
character of the modern state: the rise
of the administrative welfare state, its
relative decline and the gradual rise of the
regulatory state. She looks at whether a
shift in power has occurred in the way the
different legislative players operate within
the Knesset: the individual MK, the political
party, the coalition and the opposition, and
if such use of authority affects the content
of the Knesset’s legislation.
Supervisors: Prof. Neta Ziv and Dr. Tamar
Kricheli-Katz.
Noa says: “I am delighted and honoured to
receive the scholarship, and grateful to the
Colton family for their vote of confidence
in my research.”