Dr. Bell Yosef is a researcher and a lecturer in public law. She researches and teaches various fields of constitutional law in Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, as well as in other institutions. Her research has been published in the world's leading academic platforms, such as American Journal of Comparative Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and in Israel's leading academic and public stages. Her research has impacted the Israeli literature and has been adopted in The Israeli Supreme Court rulings.
After years of serving as the secretary of the ICON-S Israeli branch and the ICON-S Blog editor, she is currently the General Secretary of The Israeli Association for Public Law.
Her PhD thesis was written at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Aeyal Gross. In her thesis she developed a dialogic judicial review model, with special doctrinal emphasis on formal mechanisms, response-based doctrines and constitutional remedies, in order to examine whether these can be used, within the scope of Israeli constitutional law, in a manner that will improve the current, tense atmosphere of the constitutional dialogue. Bell's research has won her The President of Israel Scholarship for Innovative and Excellent Research for the year of 2018 and special excellency scholarship from the Center for the Study of the United States in Partnership with the Fulbright program.
In her LL.M. thesis (cum Laude), Bell discussed the normative status of the legislative process in the Israeli HCJ (High Court of Justice) proceedings. She demonstrated how the Israeli Supreme Court’s decisions were affected by pending legislation, and subsequently using the mere existence of the legislation process to postpone, remove, or dismiss petitions. She illustrated the pros and cons of this trend, and suggested eight criteria to direct the court on the matter of when and how to promote a fair normative status. Her thesis was published and adopted in the Israeli Supreme Court ruling.
