Dr. Limor Zer-Gutman is a leading expert in legal ethics and a senior lecturer at the Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management Academic Studies. She is the founder and head of the Weiner Center for Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. She graduated from Stanford Law School (PhD), UCLA School of Law (LL.M), and Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law (LL.B).

Dr. Zer-Gutman brings global academic excellence together with extensive practical experience. She has advised the United Nations’ Education for Justice (E4J) Integrity and Ethics initiative and created Israel’s most comprehensive database on lawyers’ professional ethics—an essential resource for practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers.

For nearly two decades, Dr. Zer-Gutman has shaped the conversation on legal ethics in Israel. She previously edited Professional Ethics, the flagship journal of the Israel Bar Association. Her legislative work includes drafting key regulatory reforms for the legal profession, from attorney advertising rules to amendments to the Israel Bar Association Law.

She served on two public committees that dealt with the legal profession in Israel. The first, in 2001, the public committee for reviewing internships and certification exams. The second, in 2013, the public committee for reviewing the Israel Bar Association. She also develops and consults on ethical codes for a wide range of public bodies and organizations, including the Prosecutor System’s Audit Commission, the Public Defender’s Youth Division, academic institutions, law clinics, and professional associations.

Research interests and teaching – Ethics and professional responsibility of lawyers and judges, the legal profession, regulation of lawyers, regulation of the judiciary, ethics education, formulating and instilling Codes of Ethics.