Prof. Yaël Ronen (Ph.D., Cambridge University) is a senior research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD from the University of Cambridge, England. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Prof. Ronen served almost a decade as a career diplomat and lawyer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was a member of the Israeli team in the negotiations over the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (the Oslo Accord).

Prof. Ronen is the academic editor of the Israel Law Review (CUP), a journal of human rights, international and public law. She teaches advanced courses in international law and human rights, including a graduate seminar on non-state actors in international law, and a graduate course on children’s rights in international law. She runs the Minerva Center’s human rights blog, featuring posts from both experts and law students participating in a dedicated course. In addition, Prof. Ronen is the academic instructor of the IHRL clinic and the human rights in cyberspace clinic at the Faculty’s Clinical Law Education Center.

Prof. Ronen’s scholarship focuses on issues of non-state actors and territorial status, and their intersection with other areas of international law, including human rights and international criminal law.  She has published extensively on occupation, self-determination, human rights and international criminal law, including in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and East Jerusalem. Her book publications include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (with David Kretzmer, 2nd edn, OUP 2021) and  Transition from Illegal Regimes under International Law (CUP 2011).

In recent years Prof. Ronen has been directing the Digest of Israeli Practice in International Law project.