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Katya Assaf Zakharov is a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, having previously served as an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has a diverse educational background with a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws from the Hebrew University and pursued Ph.D. studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation. Her scholarly work encompasses a wide array of legal topics, particularly focusing on advertising, trademarks, patents, media regulation, and defamation. Katya's writings critically analyze consumer culture and brand fetishism while integrating insights from various disciplines such as economics, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. She is specifically interested in comparative law, comparing German and US legal regulations to trace their cultural and philosophical roots. Katya's current research focuses on urban public space, where she collaborates with photographer Tim Schnetgöke to investigate the narratives in shared visual environments and critique legal regulations concerning graffiti and commercial advertising. Her work aspires to develop the concept of the inclusive city, allowing residents the right to design public spaces. She has conducted real-life experiments in Berlin to test this concept, engaging city residents in contributing to public space through texts and images on billboards.
Department of Sociology