Ayelet Hoffmann Libson is a scholar of Talmud and Jewish law. She is a professor of Talmud at Bar Ilan University and an affiliate scholar at Yale Law School. Previously she served as a professor of law at Reichman University for five years. She was the 2017-2018 Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and the 2021 Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Civil Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She specializes in rabbinic law, the relationship between law and religion, and the history of Jewish law. She teaches courses on rabbinic literature, the history of Jewish law, and the intersection between religion and human rights.
Hoffmann Libson received a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Talmud from New York University. She has won several prizes and awards, most recently the 2023 Fattal Prize for Legal Excellence. Her first book is entitled Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and she is currently working on her second book, Gateways to the Talmud: A Guided Tour.

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