Renana Keydar is an assistant professor of law and digital humanities at the Hebrew University since July 2020. She heads the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities and is teh founder and director of the teaching program in digital humanities at the Hebrew University. Keydar is the recipient of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers. Keydar received an LLB in law and a BA in political science from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude) and served as a legal advocate in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, High Court of Justice Department. Upon receiving her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, Keydar was first selected as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Minerva Center for Human Rights and then as a research fellow in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University. Today Keydar is an affiliated faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research and at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center and is a visiting researcher at the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
Keydar is a leading member of Edut 710 (Testimony 710) initiative, a civil organization for the documentation of survivor testimony of the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Education
PhD, comparative literature, Stanford University, 2015
LLB, Law (magna cum laude), Tel Aviv University, 2003
BA, Political Science (magna cum laude), Tel Aviv University, 2003.
Representative publications
Eliya Habba, Renana Keydar, Dan Bareket, Gabriel Stanovsky, The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Judicial Attitudes towards Victims of Sexual Violence, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023)
Renana Keydar, Amit Pinchevski, Maxim Ifergan, Omri Abend, Testimony from the Machine: Listening to Holocaust Testimony as a Whole, Law, Society and Culture–Law and the Material Turn 7 (2024), 143-168 (in Hebrew).
Renana Keydar, Vera Shikleman, Tomer Broude, Jonathan Elkobi, The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations, Human Rights Law Review 24(4) (2024)
Renana Keydar, Survivor Testimony of the October 7 Events: Between the Legal and the Documentary, Remembrance and Research 5 (2024), 8 pp. (in Hebrew).
Renana Keydar, Changing the Lens on Survivor Testimony: Topic Modeling the Eichmann Trial, Jewish Studies Quarterly (2022)
Renana Keydar, Yael Litmanovitz, Badi Hasisi, Yoav Kantor, Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events, Law and Social Inquiry (2022)
Mohr Wenger, Tom Kalir, Renana Keydar, Gabriel Stanovsky, Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Natural Legal Language Processing (2021)
Renana Keydar, Listening from Afar: An Algorithmic Analysis of Testimonies from the International Criminal Courts, Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy (2020).
Renana Keydar, ‘Lessons in Humanity’: Re-evaluating International Criminal Law’s Narrative of Progress in the Post 9/11 Era, Journal of International Criminal Justice 17.2 (2019)
Renana Keydar, Mass Atrocity, Mass Testimony, and the Quantitative Turn in International Law, Law and Society Review 53.2 (2019)