Adv. Dr. Tehilla Shwartz-Altshuler was, until recently, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). Her primary field of research was the relationship between law, communications, and public policy. She has recently published articles on cap trade regulators in the Israeli media market, regulation of product placement in Israeli television, and public policy of internet newspapers. Currently, Adv. Dr. Shwartz-Altshuler teaches at the Political Science and Communications departments at Bar-Ilan University as well as at the School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Adv. Dr. Shwartz-Altshuler received her LLB, summa cum laude, in 1995 and went on to earn her PhD in law in 2003 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation addressed the issue of concentration of ownership in the print media market. Adv. Dr. Shwartz-Altshuler worked as a research assistant for Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer, and as a teaching assistant to Professor Miriam Gur Arye and to Professor David Kretzmer. She received numerous awards and scholarships throughout her studies.
From 2001 to 2003, Adv. Dr. Shwartz-Altshuler worked as a research assistant for Professor Yaron Ezrahi in the communications and democracy project at the Israel Democracy Institute. While working in this position, she prepared a legislation draft preventing concentration of ownership in the print media market, for MK Tamar Gojanski, she wrote a legislation review (in Hebrew) and did preliminary research for writing a model for the establishment of “Media Watch.”
Adv. Dr. Shwartz-Altshuler has been a member of the Israel Bar Association since 1999; and in 2004, she was a visiting scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
She and her husband have two children.