Shira Gur-Arieh is a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Her dissertation examines questions that relate to legitimacy in machine-learning algorithms, and addresses whether they meet minimal conditions to deserve support and compliance from their subjects. Before coming to Harvard, Shira served as a clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, and later worked as a lawyer at a non-profit organization focusing on economic justice issues. Shira was previously a Graduate Student Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard University (2023-2024).