Hadar is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. She is a Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (winters 2023-2025), and the co-founder and co-chair of the Israeli Criminal Law Association. She specializes in criminal law and procedure, with areas of expertise including the philosophy of criminal law, criminal justice reform and alternatives to incarceration, and therapeutic, non-adversarial, and community-oriented criminal justice models. She has been the Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (2016-2018, summer 2020, 2021-2023) and is an Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley Law. Hadar is the recipient of the 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Excellence in Teaching Award. She holds a Ph.D. and LL.B. (Summa Cum Laude) from Bar-Ilan University and LL.M. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining Bar-Ilan, she was a clinical professor and the academic director of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Clinic for Violence Against Women (2005-2009). Hadar serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Israeli Minister of Justice on Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law. Her work has been published in leading American, European, and Israeli law journals. She has received numerous research grants and awards for excellence in teaching and research. She is currently co-PI of empirical research at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in NYC, exploring what success at the justice center means to its various stakeholders and audiences. Hadar is a Salzburg Global Fellow.