Professor Tomer Broude is the Bessie and Michael Greenblatt QC Chair in Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law and Department of International Relations, where he has served as Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law. His Doctoral Degree is from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He specializes in public international law and international economic law, particularly international trade and investment, human rights, dispute settlement, development and cultural diversity, and the behavioral economics of international law.

Broude is the author and editor of several books. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Organization, the European Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vanderbilt Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Journal of World Trade, World Trade Review, Journal of International Economic Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Journal of World Intellectual Property and Law and Contemporary Problems. 

He is an Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement and of the Cambridge University Press International Economic and Trade Law book series. 
He has served as co-chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and is one of the founders of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). He is on the WTO’s indicative list of dispute settlement panellists, the list of Israeli arbitrators under the Israel-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement and Chapter 10 of the Canada-US-Mexico Agreement (formerly Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement). He is a Member of the Advisory Committee under Israel's Trade Remedies Law.

Education

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD), 2004.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law, Jerusalem, Israel: Bachelor of Laws (LLB), 1996.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of International Relations, Jerusalem, Israel: Bachelor of Arts (BA) Cum Laude, 1996.

Representative publications

Books

International Governance in the World Trade Organization: Judicial Boundaries and Political Capitulation (London: Cameron May, 2004).

The Politics of International Economic Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)(ed. With Marc L. Busch and Amelia Porges).

Multi-Sourced Equivalent Norms in International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010)(ed. with Y. Shany).

Articles and Book Chapters

Renana Keydar, Vera Shikhelman, Tomer Broude, and Yehonatan Elkobi, “The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations”, Human Rights Law Review (2024).

Yoram Haftel, Morr Link and Tomer Broude, “Last year’s model? Investment arbitration, negotiation, and the gap between Model BITs and IIAs”, Journal of International Economic Law (2023).

Tomer Broude and Yoram Haftel, “The Growing Pains of Actorness: The European Union in Global Investment Governance”, Journal of European Integration (2022).

David Chriki, Tomer Broude, and Yoram Haftel, “International Investment Protection Agreements and their Influence on Regulatory Space in Israel”, Mishpat Umimshal (Haifa University Law Review) (2021).

Broude T.  and Henckels, C., “Not all Rights are Created Equal: A Loss-Gain Frame of Investor Rights and Human Rights”, Leiden Journal of International Law (2020)

Broude T. and Levy, I., “Outcome Bias and Expertise in Investigations under International Humanitarian Law”, European Journal of International Law (2019)

Broude T. and Milikowsky, N. “Establishing an NHRI in a Contested Political Space: A Deliberative Process in Israel”, 37(3) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 281-299 (2019

Broude, T., “Social In/Equality and International Trade Reformisms of Fear”, 77 University of Illinois Law Review Online (2019)

Thompson, A., Broude, T.and Haftel Y.Z., “Once Bitten, Twice Shy? How Disputes Affect Regulatory Space in Investment Agreements”, 73(4) International Organization 859-880 (2019)

“Arbitration from a Law & Economics Perspective”, forthcoming in Thomas Schultz & Federico Ortino (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with Anne van Aaken).

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Regulatory Space: A Comparison of Treaty Texts”, Journal of International Economic Law (2017)(with Yoram Z. Haftel and Alexander Thompson).

“Deontology, Functionality and Scope in the Sovereignty of Human Rights”, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (2017).

“Between Geneva and Jerusalem: Government-Civil Society Interaction before UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies as a Means of Incorporating International Human Rights in Israel”, Hukim (2017)(with Shlomi Balaban).

“Selective Subsidiarity and Dialectic Deference in the World Trade Organization”, 78 Law and Contemporary Problems 2016.

“Behavioral International Law”, 163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2015.

“A Diet Too Far? Intangible Cultural Heritage, Cultural Diversity, and Culinary Practices”, in Irene Calboli and Srividhya Radavan (eds.), Protecting and Promoting Diversity with Intellectual Property Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015).