Dr. Talia Schwartz Maor

Post - doctoral fellow

I am a JSD graduate from UC Berkeley School of Law. I previously received my LL.B from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2012) and an LL.M from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (2012) and Berkeley Law (2015). Throughout my academic journey I developed an empirical approach, focusing on the impact of new technologies on traditional law and legal institutions.
My doctoral dissertation deals with the use of social media by crime victims and bystandards as a self-help mechanism. The study implements a survey methodology for measuring online behavior and perceptions of justice and examines the relationship between trust in formal law enforcement entities and support for online vigilantism. As an affiliate at Berkeley Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) I conducted an empirical study of social media users’ awareness of IP rights in uploaded content in eleven social media platforms (co-authored). This large-sample study on user-generated content investigates user awareness, understanding, and expectations of licensing terms and the salience of those terms to users’ decisions to upload their copyrighted work. In a different project done through a text-analysis workshop at Berkeley D-Lab, I conducted an interdisciplinary research along with a data scientist and a programmer, that incorporates topic modeling and semantic meaning to form a legal citation recommendation engine (co-authored).
I am admitted to practice law in Israel and prior to Berkeley I interned for Israel State Attorney and worked at Google Israel legal team. In my last position at Lawgeex (2018-2022), I served as a product/project manager directly reporting to CPO, helping in leading the company’s new platform (AI-powered contract review) and market expansion plan. During my time in Berkeley Law, I served as a graduate teacher assistant at the law school, sociology department and information school.