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Inbar Levy is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, in the field of Law. She joined Melbourne Law School in 2015 after completing her DPhil in Law at University College, Oxford, where she was awarded the Modern Law Review Doctoral Scholarship and the Oxford Faculty of Law Scholarship. Levy earned a Joint Law and Psychology LLB with Magna Cum Laude honours and an LLM with Magna Cum Laude honours from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to her doctoral studies, she served as a legal advising officer in the Military Advocate General unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Throughout her career, she has held distinguished visiting appointments, including Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia Law School in New York, Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, fellow at the Centre for the Study of Rationality and the Sacher Institute in Jerusalem, and Houser Global Fellow at New York University School of Law.

Levy's academic interests center on the implications of empirical behavioural psychology for legal reasoning and practice, with a project titled 'Behavioural Analysis of Civil Procedure Rules'. Her research specializations encompass procedural justice, empirical legal research, civil procedure, empirical legal studies, legal theory, decision making, behaviour and decision-making, access to justice, and institutional design. She teaches 'Law and Psychology' in the Melbourne JD and Melbourne Law Masters programs and serves as a theme leader in the University of Melbourne's Centre for AI and Digital Ethics. Key publications include 'Outcome Bias and Expertise in Investigations under International Humanitarian Law' (2019, co-authored with T. Broude, European Journal of International Law), 'Simplifying Legal Decisions: Factor Overload in Civil Procedure Rules' (2017, Melbourne University Law Review), 'What the Fair Minded Observer Really Thinks About Judicial Impartiality' (2021, co-authored with A. Higgins, The Modern Law Review), 'Lightening the Overload of CPR Rule 3.9' (2013, Civil Justice Quarterly), 'The Bright but Modest Potential of Algorithms in the Courtroom' (2020, co-authored with A. Higgins and T. Lienart, in Principles, Procedure, and Justice: Essays in Honour of Adrian Zuckerman), and 'Automatic Resolution of Domain Name Disputes' (2021, co-authored with W.O. Vihikan et al., Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop).