Prof.
Yuval
Shany
Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, Visiting Professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College, London and Research Fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute in Oxford. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee between 2013-2020 (chairing the Committee between 2018-2019).
Education
LLB cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995
LL.M. in International Legal Studies, NYU, 1997
PhD in International Law, SOAS University of London, 2001
Representative publications
“Human Rights Norms Applicable in the Situation of Armed Conflict: Beyond the lex generalis/lex specialis framework”, Japanese Yearbook of International Law (2023)
"Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law” (Co-edited with Andre Nollkaemper and Anotnios Tzanakopoulos), 2024, Oxford University Press
“To Use AI or not Use AI? Autonomous Weapon Systems and their complicated relationship with the right to life”, 84 Ljubljana Law Review, (2025)
“Big-Tech Companies’ Obligations Under International Human Rights Law”, 57 Israel Law Review (2025)