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 serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and a Visiting Professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) at King’s College, London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee between 2013-2020 (chairing the Committee between 2018-2019).
His current research focuses on international human rights law and new technology and he leads a European Research Council group or researchers investigating the three generation of digital human rights (3GDR).
Shany is an honorary fellow of the Senior Common Room at Magdalen College (2023-2024) and an inaugural Accelerator Fellow.
Further information:
Georgetown Law - Prof Yuval Shany's profile
