Editorial Board

Prof. Yuval Shani

Prof. Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020, where he also served as the Chair of the Committee. He is a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, the Chair of the Hebrew University’s Minerva Center for Human Rights’ academic committee, co-director of the Faculty’s International Law Forum and transitional justice program, and the head of the Cyber Law program of the Hebrew University Cyber Security Research Center. Yuval is the recipient of the 2021 Gorni Prize for academic contribution to Israeli public law.

Prof. Malcolm Shaw

Prof. Malcolm Shaw is a practicing barrister with international reputation in territorial disputes, law of the sea, state succession and immunity, recognition, human rights, self-determination and more. He has advised the UK Government and other governments, international organisations, multinational corporations and private clients. He has appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the European Court of Justice (CJEU), and numerous domestic high courts of justice. Malcolm is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, He was the Founder Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, 1983. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.

Prof. Yaël Ronen is a faculty member at the Academic Center for Science and Law at Hod Hasharon, and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University in 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, Yaël served 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).