Frances Raday (born January 29, 1944, in Manchester, England) is a Professor Emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raday is currently a Professor of Law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies, where she also acts as President of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel and as Head of the School's Graduate Programs. Raday is also an Honorary Professor at University College London and is Doctor Honoris at the University of Copenhagen. She has been and continues to be an activist for human rights, as a litigator in Israel's Supreme Court, an expert member of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Committee and a member of various governmental and non-governmental organisations. As of 2011, she serves as member of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Discrimination against Women. Professor Raday is married and has three children. Biography Frances Raday grew up in the UK. She studied law at the London School of Economics. After completing her LL.B she worked as a researcher at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Between 1966 and 1968 she was a lecturer at the University of East Africa in Tanzania where she established the first East African Labor Law course. In 1968 she immigrated to Israel and completed her Ph.D. studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she became Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law. Raday has been visiting Professor at the Universities of Southern California, Tulane University, University of Copenhagen and Oxford University. Academic and legal career Raday is currently a Professor of Law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies, where she is also president of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel, with its International Human Rights Law Amicus Clinic, and is also head of the School's Graduate Programs. Raday has served as editor in chief of the Israel Law Review; chair of the Lafer Center for Women’s Studies at the Hebrew University; Chair of the Academic Committee of the Minerva Center for Human Rights; and chair of the Israeli Association of Feminist and Gender Studies. Raday's research has focused on the development of theory as regards rights to equality of disadvantaged groups. She has written a number of books and many academic articles on these issues.