Neta Patrick
Housing, Land, & Property Rights Fellow
Neta Patrick is an Israeli lawyer specializing in Israeli constitutional and human rights law. Ms. Patrick graduated with Honors from Tel Aviv University School of law and the gender and women studies program. Awarded a full human rights fellowship from Columbia University, Ms. Patrick completed her Master in Laws program (LL.M) in 2011 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
Prior to her studies in Columbia, Ms. Patrick worked as an associate in Michael Sfard law office for three years where she was the legal director of the "Rule of Law" project for human rights organization Yesh Din. The project, which monitors more than 500 complaints filed by Palestinians against alleged abuses by Israeli civilians in the West Bank, is considered in the Israeli legal and human rights circles as an outstanding achievement. Ms. Patrick has worked with several Israeli NGOs such as Physicians for Human Rights and Isha-Le-Isha (Hebrew for: Woman for Woman) and was the legal advisor to "Who Profits", a pioneering project lead by the Coalition of Woman for Peace aimed at exposing companies and corporations involved in the occupation through grass-roots investigation.
Ms. Patrick co-litigated a variety of cases in the Israeli Supreme Court and district courts including conscious objectors to military service, Bedouin communities' indigenous right to land and cases involving freedom of speech.