Dr. Yael Landman Receives Berkowitz Fellowship

June 4, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Yael Landman, Assistant Professor of Bible, for receiving the Berkowitz Fellowship from the NYU School of Law. Throughout the 2025–2026 school year, Dr. Landman will work on her research in progress, “The Biblical Legal Imagination: Law, Narrative, and the Performance of Justice.” Dr. Landman’s research participates in law and humanities discourses surrounding topics including the role that the humanities might play in the improvement of law; how to effect justice and deter wrongdoing; and the limits of judicial power. As a Berkowitz Fellow, Dr. Landman will be fully integrated with the intellectual community of the NYU School of Law and will have the opportunity to present her research in progress in the fall semester and in a workshop in the spring semester.

The Berkowitz Fellowship was created thanks to a generous gift by Mr. Ivan Berkowitz. The area of research addresses issues from a broad spectrum of Jewish learning and civilization. The fellowship facilitates research and scholarship into areas that examine the historical, cultural, and political forces that helped shape the intellectual atmosphere in which the integration of varying traditions of law into an operative jurisprudential system was affected.

Learn more about Dr. Landman’s research here.