Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University. He currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a Visiting Professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College, London, and the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was a member of the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee between 2013 and 2020 (chairing the Committee between 2018 and 2019) and a Fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute at the University of Oxford (since 2024). Shany currently leads an ERC funded research group on digital human rights.
Gadi is the Research Coordinator for the Federmann CyberSecurity Research Center, and holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty researching the regulation of Artificial Intelligence, including algorithmic transparency and the use of AI in the public sphere.
Gadi also researches related matters in Smart Transportation, including autonomous vehicles and cybersecurity regulation of “smart” cars. Until 2022, Gadi worked as a Senior Investigator and Team leader in the Israeli Competition Authority Investigations Department. Gadi is a qualified cybercrime and computer-forensic investigator and was in charge of all of the gathering of digital evidence in the ICA. Gadi was a member of both the Technologies and Training sub-committees of the Israeli Joint Task Force Committee in charge of Enforcement against Economic Organized Crime.
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Founder and Principal, Housen-Couriel Law Offices. Deborah is an expert legal practitioner and consultant in cybersecurity, outer space law, data protection, and cyber incident response.
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Founder and Principal, Housen-Couriel Law Offices. Deborah is an expert legal practitioner and consultant in cybersecurity, outer space law, data protection, and cyber incident response.
Formerly Chief Legal Officer and VP Regulation at Konfidas Digital, she is the founder and principal of Housen-Couriel Law Offices, a practice focusing on tailored compliance solutions for clients in Israel and internationally. Deborah also serves as an adjunct professor at Reichman University and Hebrew University’s Law Faculty, where she is on the Advisory Board of the Federmann Cyber Security Center. A member of the International Group of Experts that drafted Tallinn Manual 2.0, she also contributed as a Core Expert to the MILAMOS space law manual and serves as an editor on the Encyclopedia of Space Law. Deborah holds degrees from Harvard Kennedy School (MPA-MC), Hebrew University (LL.B., LL.M. cum laude), the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, and Wellesley College (summa cum laude).
She is a qualified international arbitrator, registered with the Israel Chamber of Arbitrators. Deborah is also a founding member of Forum Dvorah and a member of the Israel Branch of the International Women's Forum. Her most recent areas of academic research include cyberspace and outer space information sharing between the private and public sectors; and the critical nexus of cybersecurity and national security.
Recent research:
Information Sharing for the Mitigation of Outer Space-Related Cybersecurity Threats, 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 25-29 October 2021 (forthcoming).
Information Sharing as a Critical Best Practice for the Sustainability of Cyber Peace, in Shackelford et al, Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (forthcoming)
Hacking Back under International Law: Toward Effective Remedies against Cyberattacks for Non-State Actors, Cybersecurity and Legal-Regulatory Aspects, World Publishing Company, 2021.
Between national security considerations and data privacy: two approaches to balancing a core normative tension in cybersecurity regulation, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, March 2019.
Space Security and Cybersecurity: Intersecting Challenges, in Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, Monograph Series V, Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University (2018).
“Cyber Law and Telecommunications Law”, chapter in R. Sabel and Yael Ronen (eds.), International Law, 3rd ed., Sacher Institute, Faculty of Law, HUJI, 2016).
Ido Sivan-Sevilla holds a joint position as an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University School of Public Policy & Governance and The School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Prof. Medina is a faculty member and former Dean of the Law Faculty. His teaching and research areas include constitutional law, and economic analysis of law.
Michal Shur-Ofry is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty, and is currently an affiliate visiting faculty at NYU Information law Institute.
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University. He currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a Visiting Professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College, London, and the Geneva Graduate Institute. He was a member of the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee between 2013 and 2020 (chairing the Committee between 2018 and 2019) and a Fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute at the University of Oxford (since 2024). Shany currently leads an ERC funded research group on digital human rights.
I am a faculty member at Hebrew University. My fields of interest are Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Specifically, I conduct research on semantic (meaning) representation from a computational perspective. My research is tightly linked to statistical learning, language technology, and to computational cognitive modeling of linguistic behavior, and semantics in particular. I am an associate professor in the departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science. I serve as the current chair of the latter. Previously I was a research associate (post-doc) with Mark Steedman. I earned my PhD from the Hebrew University, where my supervisor was Ari Rappoport. During my PhD studies, I was a member of the Azrieli Fellows Program. Before that, I studied mathematics and cognitive sciences at the Hebrew University (BSc, summa cum laude).
Ido Sivan-Sevilla holds a joint position as an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University School of Public Policy & Governance and The School of Computer Science and Engineering.
He brings together the fields of computer science and public policy by studying governance structures across a range of cybersecurity, privacy, information integrity, and machine learning problems.
Dr. Sivan-Sevilla develops computational tools to advance evidence-based tech policy. His work was published in the Journal of Cybersecurity, Big Data & Society, New Media & Society, Journal of European Public Policy, Policy & Internet, Journal of Risk Research, ACM Symposium on Computer Science & Law, Internet Policy Review and more respected venues. Dr. Sivan-Sevilla's background includes years of working on network and information security, holding technical cybersecurity positions in the private sector, Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, and the Israeli Air-Force [Captain].
Academically, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative (DLI), completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy & Governance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a Fulbright Scholar during his MA in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota. His B.A. in Computer Science is from the Technion – Israel’s Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Hebrew University, Ido was on the faculty of the University of Maryland.
Noam Kolt is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Noam’s research focuses on the governance of AI, automation in the legal system, and broader questions of institutional design. Alongside his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, Noam served as a research advisor to Google DeepMind and was a member of OpenAI’s GPT-4 red team. Previously, Noam practiced international law and corporate law, and held fellowships at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Noam’s scholarship has been published in the Washington University Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Yale Law & Policy Review, Melbourne University Law Review, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and other peer-reviewed venues, including NeurIPS, ACM FAccT, and Science.
For a list of publications and further information, please visit his personal website.
Katrina Ligett is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Hebrew University, where she is also the academic director of the interdisciplinary Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, an affiliated faculty member and former head of the program on the Interfaces of Technology, Society, and Networks, and an affiliate of the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center. Before joining Hebrew University, she was faculty in computer science and economics at Caltech. Katrina's primary research interests are in data privacy, algorithmic fairness, machine learning theory, and algorithmic game theory. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and did her postdoc at Cornell University. She is a recipient of an ERC Consolidator grant, the NSF CAREER award, and a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship. Katrina was the co-chair of the 2021 International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT), the chair of the 2021 Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), and the general chair of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law.
She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member to the Harvard University OpenDP Project, and as an Associate Editor at the journals TheoretiCS and Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC). She is also a Principal Investigator in the Simons Foundation Collaboration on the Theory of Algorithmic Fairness.
Prof Einat Albin from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem works in the field of labour law and in recent years specifically on the field of law and new technologies. She has performed extensive work on the right to personal data protection and privacy in the workplace, on rights at work in an era of cyber security and is now leading a large research project on the AI Network@Work focusing on the application of legal responsibilities on tech actors alongside those placed on the employer.
Dr. Deganit Paikowsky is an expert in international relations, specializing in the intersection of global politics and technological domains, with a focus on space, cyber, and emerging technologies. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she leads the Techno-Strategic Research Lab. Dr. Paikowsky is also a Non-resident Scholar at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.
Her work bridges academic research and practical policy experience. She has played a key role in shaping space and cyber-security policies in Israel, including serving as Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) on behalf of the Israel Space Agency. Dr. Paikowsky is the author of The Power of the Space Club (2017) and other significant publications on space policy, security, and governance.
Dr. Renana Keydar is an associate professor in Law and Digital Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She holds a degree in law and political science from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. After completing her doctorate, Renana returned to Israel as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Minerva Center for Human Rights and then in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University. In her research, Keydar investigates legal responses to mass atrocity and systematic human rights violations and the narratives partaking in shaping these institutions, using computational methods of text analysis. Her articles have been published in leading journals such as the Law and Society Review and Journal of International Criminal Justice. Prior to her graduate studies, Keydar served as an advocate in Israel State Attorney's Office - High Court of Justice Department.
Dmitry Epstein is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is also an affiliate at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center - Cyber Law Program and the James J. Shasha Center for Strategic Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of information, technology, policy, and society examining how power operates in the governance of digital technologies. Specifically, he studies digital governance, privacy, cybersecurity and digital inequality. Dmitry's work has been supported by funders such as the National Science Foundation, Program on Economics & Privacy at George Mason University Law School, and the Internet Society. He has published in a number of venues such as The Information Society, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Social Media + Society, and New Media & Society. Dmitry is the past Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and he is a co-founder of the Comparative Privacy Research Network (CPRN).
Dmitry earned his PhD from Cornell University and prior to joining the Hebrew University, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
David Levi-Faur is the Wolfson Family Chair in Public Administration. He is Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a leading and foundational scholar in the field of regulation and governance who has pioneered theoretical breakthroughs, specifically through his research on diffusion, regulatory governance, and regulatory capitalism.
Levi-Faur is one of the highest most ranking political scientist globally. He is a founding editor of Regulation & Governance, a top journal that serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance in the social sciences. He is currently hold five funded grant. A five years ERC project on Regulatory Trust, A five year project on Intermediaries (Mapatz, the Israeli Science Foundation), a grant on Corruption, BridgeGap from Horizon Europe; a grant on strategic public procurement of the DFG; a grant from Horizon Europe on Suntanning Public Administration in Modern Democracies (SUPA).. He is particularly proud in a teaching and research project on Policy Integration and Regulation in the Dead Sea Area as well as on Injustice and Redress in Public Policy.
He held research and teaching positions at the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, the Australian National University, the University of Manchester and the Freie Universität Berlin. He held visiting positions in the London School of Economics, the University of Amsterdam, University of Utrecht; University of California (Berkeley), SciencesPo (Paris), Central European University (Vienna), LMU (Munich), WZB (Berlin).
Prof. Medina is a faculty member and former Dean of the Law Faculty. His teaching and research areas include constitutional law, and economic analysis of law.
He is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University (LL.B. 1991, BA Econ. 1991, MA Econ. 1992), Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1996), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD. Econ. 1999).
He served as a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and University of California at Berkeley Law School. In constitutional law Prof. Medina's main fields of interest include: theory of judicial review, the protection of human rights, legal aspects of anti-terror warfare, equality and antidiscrimination law, public choice theory, and more.
He is the co-author (with Prof. Amnon Rubinstein) of the authoritative book on Israel's Constitutional Law, now in its 6th edition. He also serves as the substitute Israeli member at the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. In economic analysis of law Prof. Medina's scholarship includes research in economic analysis of contract law and other areas of law.
LL.B. (Honors), Hebrew University, 1985; LL.M, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, 1987; Ph.D. Hebrew University, 1993; Post-Doc, Worcesterand Wolfson College, Oxford, 1995. Law Clerk for Chief Justice Meir Shamgar,Israel Supreme Court 1985-1986. Academic Awards include: The Wolfe Foundation (Israel) Prize for Research Student 1990; The Council for Higher Education Grant 1990 and the Birk Prize for Distinguished Research in the Field of Law, 1999. Research Grants include: The Israel Science Foundation Grant, 1997 and the Israel Foundation Trustees Grant, 1997. Research Interest include: Public Law, Judicial Review, Law and Society, Law and Politics, and the Study of Government Lawyers. Shneior Zalman Heshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law (2012) Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption Non Residential Fellowship (2012-13); President, Israeli Association for Law and Society
Employment: Faculty of Law, HebrewUniversity: Lecturer in Law 1995; Senior Lecturer 2000; Associate Professor 2004; Full Professor 2008
Visiting Positions: Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School 2002-2003; Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School,2003-2004; Visiting Professor University of Miami Law School (Fall 2008);
Selected Publications: Open and Close Judicial Review of Agency Action: The Conflicting US and Israeli Approach, American Journal of Comparative Law (2016, forthcoming) (with Michael Asimow); Lawyering for the Rule of Law: Government Lawyers and the Rise of Judicial Power in Israel (Cambridge Un. Press, 2014): The Boundaries of Social Transformation through Litigation: Women’s and LGBT Rights in Israel, 1970-2010 (Isr. L. Rev. 2014); The Different Effect of Cognitive Bias on Different Decision Types – An Experimental Study on Government Procurement, 45 Mishpatim (HU Law Rev.) (2014) (with Omer Dekel); Solving the Counter-majoritarian Difficulty? 11 I-CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013 with Or Bassok); Non Delegation and the Revised Principle of Legality, 42 Mishpatim 379-447 (2012); Making Consistency Consistent, 57(4) Administrative Law Review (2005); Legal Defeats - Political Wins: Why Do Elected Representative Go to Court? 38 (1) Comparative Political Studies 75-103 (2005) (with Menachem Hofnung); The Spillover Effect of Bills of Rights: A Comparative Assessment of the Impact of Bills of Rights on Courts in Canada and Israel, American Journal of Comparative Law 293-342 (2005); Campaign Finance Reform and the Social Inequality Paradox, 37 (4) Michigan Journal of Law Reform 955-1015 (2004); Judicial Rhetoric, Government Lawyers and Human Rights: The Case of the Israeli High Court of Justice during the Intifada, 33 (2) Law and Society Review (1999) 319-364; Do the ‘Haves’ Still Come Out Ahead? Resource Inequalities in Ideological Courts: The Case of the Israeli High Court of Justice, 33(4) Law and Society Review (1999) 401-425; Why Administrators Should Be Bound by Their Policies, 17 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (1997) 23-41; Should Prosecutorial Discretion Enjoy Special Treatment in Judicial Review: A Comparative Analysis of the Law in England and in Israel, [1997] Public Law 513-531
Prof. David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University. He is also Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University (and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy) . Weisburd is an elected fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (IAS). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, the Scientific Commision of the International Society of Criminology, and Stockholm Prize Jury. He is the Co-Chair of the IAS Committee on the Future of Policing in Israel, and was the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences (US) Committee on Proactive Policing.
Weisburd is one of the leading international researchers in crime and justice. He is author or editor of 37 books and more than 280 scientific articles that cover a wide range of research topics, including crime at place, violent crime, white collar crime, policing, illicit markets, terrorism, criminal justice statistics and social deviance. Weisburd is the recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. the Israel Prize, the Rothchilde Prize for Social Science, the Sutherland and Vollmer Awards from the American Society of Criminology, and the Klachky Family Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science. Weisburd is Honorary President of the Israeli Society of Criminology and Editor of Cambridge University Press Elements in Criminology.
Michal Shur-Ofry is an Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Faculty, and is currently an affiliate visiting faculty at NYU Information law Institute.
Her research and teaching focus on Law and Technology, Intellectual Property, and Law and Complexity Theory. Her research is characterized by a strongly interdisciplinary approach, combining legal analysis with insights from the hard sciences and the humanities. She regularly collaborates with scholars across disciplines, including physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. Her recent scholarship examines how insights from complexity and network theory can inform legal rules and policies across diverse areas of law. She also explores policy responses to the systemic effects of artificial intelligence and is interested in the intersection of law, AI, and collective memory. Her work in these areas has been published in leading journals. She is currently authoring a treatise—Law and Complexity: An Introduction (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).
I hold a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, a B.A. in Humanities, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from the Hebrew University (received in 2004, 2004, and 2008, respectively). My Ph.D. dissertation, titled “The Economics of Internet Protocols”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Noam Nisan. During my graduate studies, I spent time at UC Berkeley and Yale University as a visiting student, interned at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and worked at BrightSource Industries Israel (BSII).
Professor Simon Perry is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School at Hebrew University's Institute of Criminology in Jerusalem.
Professor Perry holds a M.A. and PhD. in Criminology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Perry is a retired officer in the Israeli Police (IP), where he served for 30 years specializing in Intelligence - Gathering and Operations. He also served as head of European Operations of the IP between 1987-1991 and as the IP Police Attaché to the US & Canada between 2003 – 2007 at the rank of Brigadier General.
Professor Perry also served as the Commander of Intelligence and Operational Division of the National Unit for Exposing Severe, International Terror and Organized Crime; Head of Interpol and International Relations; Commander of National Drug and International Operations Unit. He has extensive experience teaching and training intelligence and law enforcement agencies worldwide in the areas of "Policing Terrorism", "Homeland Security", "International Organized Crime" and "Drug Trafficking".
Professor Perry for the past 15 years has trained U.S. Law Enforcement and Intelligence Officers in training seminars he gives in both the US and Israel. In the last years Professor Perry’s work has focused on the issue of “Policing Terrorism Strategies & Tactics” studying effective “policing terror” models. In his work he attempts, to study the terror phenomenon and systematically describe, measure, evaluate and assess the effectiveness of different police responses to terrorism. In collaboration with leading international scholars, he is studying the effectiveness of situational crime prevention as a way of reducing the opportunities for terrorism. Professor Perry is the vice chairmanof the Movement for Quality Government. a Jerusalem based NGO with the mission of actively advocating for quality of government and against corruption in and at the various levels of government.
Prof. Badi Hasisi served as a Chair of the Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University for more than a decade. His work focuses on the interaction between community and the criminal justice agencies, with specific emphasis on the particular problems faced by minority groups with the police. In the last years his work focused on the response to violent crimes in the Arab society in Israel. Another field on interest is correction and evaluation studies in the criminal justice system. He also specialises in the study of terrorism and homeland security (airport security, lone actors terrorism and the ramifications of terrorism on police-minority relations and radicalisation). Prof. Hasisi is also one of the Pis for project PROTON, an EU funded research project examining the processes and factors involved in radicalisation and recruitment to terrorism (Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement: 699824). As part of project PROTON, Prof. Hasisi is leading a number of unique studies examining online radicalization, with a focus on new social media. Prof. Hasisi also served as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology and the current chair of the Israeli Society of Criminology.
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Founder and Principal, Housen-Couriel Law Offices. Deborah is an expert legal practitioner and consultant in cybersecurity, outer space law, data protection, and cyber incident response.
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.
Deborah Housen-Couriel, Founder and Principal, Housen-Couriel Law Offices. Deborah is an expert legal practitioner and consultant in cybersecurity, outer space law, data protection, and cyber incident response.
Formerly Chief Legal Officer and VP Regulation at Konfidas Digital, she is the founder and principal of Housen-Couriel Law Offices, a practice focusing on tailored compliance solutions for clients in Israel and internationally. Deborah also serves as an adjunct professor at Reichman University and Hebrew University’s Law Faculty, where she is on the Advisory Board of the Federmann Cyber Security Center. A member of the International Group of Experts that drafted Tallinn Manual 2.0, she also contributed as a Core Expert to the MILAMOS space law manual and serves as an editor on the Encyclopedia of Space Law. Deborah holds degrees from Harvard Kennedy School (MPA-MC), Hebrew University (LL.B., LL.M. cum laude), the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, and Wellesley College (summa cum laude).
She is a qualified international arbitrator, registered with the Israel Chamber of Arbitrators. Deborah is also a founding member of Forum Dvorah and a member of the Israel Branch of the International Women's Forum. Her most recent areas of academic research include cyberspace and outer space information sharing between the private and public sectors; and the critical nexus of cybersecurity and national security.
Recent research:
Information Sharing for the Mitigation of Outer Space-Related Cybersecurity Threats, 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 25-29 October 2021 (forthcoming).
Information Sharing as a Critical Best Practice for the Sustainability of Cyber Peace, in Shackelford et al, Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace, Cambridge University Press, 2022 (forthcoming)
Hacking Back under International Law: Toward Effective Remedies against Cyberattacks for Non-State Actors, Cybersecurity and Legal-Regulatory Aspects, World Publishing Company, 2021.
Between national security considerations and data privacy: two approaches to balancing a core normative tension in cybersecurity regulation, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, March 2019.
Space Security and Cybersecurity: Intersecting Challenges, in Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, Monograph Series V, Centre for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University (2018).
“Cyber Law and Telecommunications Law”, chapter in R. Sabel and Yael Ronen (eds.), International Law, 3rd ed., Sacher Institute, Faculty of Law, HUJI, 2016).
Mr. Shamir retired in 2015 from the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) after 24 years of service. In his last position, He served as the technology division head, in - rank equivalent to Major General. During his tenure, Mr. Shamir introduced innovative thought and paradigms that led the division to extraordinary performance.
Mr. Shamir had the responsibility for: R&D and manufacturing processes in a variety of disciplines, managing a technological unit of hundreds of engineers, total responsibility for all technological solutions which ISA uses.
Prior his last position Mr. Shamir served as the Head of Cyber R&D Department. Building the first cyber department in ISA and managing it. Leading Cyber Tools Development, and Building Cyber operation capabilities.
Since he retired Mr. Shamir has been involved in entrepreneurial activities with both startups and VCs, in the Cyber-Security and Health Care Technology domains. He also advises on strategic solutions for Cyber security and critical infrastructure defense.
Currently Mr. Shamir is the co-founder and CEO of Phonetica, a startup in the speech analytic for Health Care domain.
Mr. Shamir is also a Fellow at the Israeli International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT), and holds a B.Sc. and Executive MBA, Magna Cum Laude, both from Tel Aviv University.
Prof. David Weisburd is Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University. He is also Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University (and Executive Director of the Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy) . Weisburd is an elected fellow of the American Society of Criminology and of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and an elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (IAS). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group, the Scientific Commision of the International Society of Criminology, and Stockholm Prize Jury. He is the Co-Chair of the IAS Committee on the Future of Policing in Israel, and was the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences (US) Committee on Proactive Policing.
Weisburd is one of the leading international researchers in crime and justice. He is author or editor of 37 books and more than 280 scientific articles that cover a wide range of research topics, including crime at place, violent crime, white collar crime, policing, illicit markets, terrorism, criminal justice statistics and social deviance. Weisburd is the recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. the Israel Prize, the Rothchilde Prize for Social Science, the Sutherland and Vollmer Awards from the American Society of Criminology, and the Klachky Family Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science. Weisburd is Honorary President of the Israeli Society of Criminology and Editor of Cambridge University Press Elements in Criminology.
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Dan Efrony – Former Military Advocate General (M.A.G.). Dan had a rich professional military career in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The first stage of his career saw him become an intelligence officer and commander (achieving the rank of Lt.-Col.), during which time he focused mainly on combating terrorism, especially in Lebanon.
In the second stage, which began in the mid-1990s, he became a legal officer within the framework of the Military Advocate General Corps. Dan's legal military career spanned several senior positions, including Deputy to the Chief Military Prosecutor, Military Advocate of the Northern Command, Chief Defense Counsel, Deputy to the M.A.G., before being appointed M.A.G. in 2011, serving in this position until 2015. Under his authority and responsibility as M.A.G., he established and oversaw the process of providing legal advice to the relevant IDF units active in the cyber space. Dan as a law degree (LL.B.) from the Faculty of law – Tel Aviv University and Master of Business Administration (EMBA) – Tel-Aviv University, (Recanati) Koler Business School.
Dr. David Maimon serves as the Head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink, where he plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between upstream fraud signals found in the online fraud ecosystem and downstream fraud signals received by SentiLink partners. Leveraging his extensive background in cybercrime, investigation, and fraud prevention, Dr. Maimon brings valuable experience to his position.
Before joining SentiLink, Dr. Maimon held the position of Principal Product Manager and Special Advisor at GeoComply, as well as the role of Chief Science Officer at Vidocq Group. Currently, he is also a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University (GSU) and serves as the director of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group. Recognized for his outstanding contributions, Dr. Maimon received the "Young Scholar Award" from the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium of the National White-Collar Crime Center in 2015 for his noteworthy cybercrime research.
In 2023, he was honored with the "Educator of the Year" award from the Houston Chapter of The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Throughout his career, Dr. Maimon has published books and scientific articles, and successfully secured over $6 million in funding to conduct Evidence-Based Cybersecurity research, further solidifying his impact in the field.
Noa researches the influence of AI technologies on human rights and explores ways to make them more inclusive, fair, and aligned with democratic values. She is interested in the societal benefits of AI technologies and in understanding and mitigating their risks.
Naama has been working in the Israeli public sector since 2010, specializing in intellectual property law (IP), technology, and the intersection between IP and private international law (PIL).
Amir Cahane is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, and a research fellow in the ERC project Three Generations of Digital Human Rights.
Shira Sheinenzon is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, researching legal solutions for user safety in AI models under the supervision of Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky. She currently serves as a Research Fellow at the Mishael Cheshin Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Her academic achievements have been consistently recognized through competitive awards, including the Johanna Friedlander Prize for excellence and the Meitar Law Offices Scholarship for Commercial Law. Shira holds both a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Law with honors. In addition to her doctoral research, Shira is a Lecturer at David Yellin College, where she teaches "Copyrights and Ethics" to master's students
Adv. Michael Sierra is a PhD student in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a James J. Shasha Fellow, specializing in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) under the supervision of Prof. Yuval Shany and Prof. David Levi-Faur. His doctoral research focuses on regulatory intermediaries and regulatory sandboxes as tools for AI governance, incorporating perspectives from regulation theory and human rights. He holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. (magna cum laude), as well as a B.A. in International Relations, from the Hebrew University. He previously worked at the Israel Democracy Institute and at the Israeli Supreme Court.
Noa researches the influence of AI technologies on human rights and explores ways to make them more inclusive, fair, and aligned with democratic values. She is interested in the societal benefits of AI technologies and in understanding and mitigating their risks.
One of her recent works addresses digital linguistic disparities, analyzing how large language models (LLMs) present far-reaching opportunities while also reinforcing offline hierarchies and limiting participation for speakers of digitally marginalized languages.
She recently completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was an associate member of the Three Generations of Digital Human Rights Research ERC project.
In 2023, she was selected for the Young Forum of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities on Generative AI. As a PhD candidate, she was a visiting researcher at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative (DLI).
Naama has been working in the Israeli public sector since 2010, specializing in intellectual property law (IP), technology, and the intersection between IP and private international law (PIL).
She served as a legal advisor in the IP Law Department, Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs, in the Israeli Ministry of Justice (2010-2017), and as a legal advisor to the Economic Affairs Committee in the Israeli Parliament, since 2017. Since 2022 she is serving as the Deputy Legal Advisor to the Economic Affairs Committee in the Israeli Parliament.
Naama has managed policy and legislation projects on IP and technology-related subjects, including the enactment of the new Israeli Designs Act, which replaced an ordinance from 1924 and brought the Israeli legislation up to date with technological developments. She has advised government offices and agencies on IP and technology and drafted numerous policy and guidance documents on these subjects. She is a guest lecturer in academic courses and an invited speaker at conferences on IP and cyber issues.
Naama has represented Israel in various international forums discussing IP, emerging technologies, and PIL, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH).
Naama’s publications mainly focus on IP, the intersection between IP and PIL, and the effects of technology on these fields, and vice versa. She holds an LL.B (magna cum laude) and an LL.M (summa cum laude) from Tel Aviv University.
Amir Cahane is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, and a research fellow in the ERC project Three Generations of Digital Human Rights.
Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Amir served as researcher in the Israel Democracy Institutes. His research interests are comparative surveillance law, AI regulation and other topics pertaining to law and technology.
Amir published several Hebrew books on surveillance and AI, including Human, Machine, State: Toward the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (2023, with Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler) a comprehensive primer in Hebrew on AI regulation); Regulation of Online Surveillance in Israeli Law and Comparative Law (2019, with Yuval Shany); and Oversight of online surveillance in Israel (2020, with Yuval Shany). He holds a master’s degree (LLM) from Cambridge University, and bachelor’s degrees from Riechman University (LLB, law and business) and Tel Aviv University (BSc, statistics and management).
Tal Mimran is an Associate Professor at Zefat Academic College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Taclith Institute for Israeli Policy. He is a Research Affiliate for the ERC project "Three Generations of Digital Human Rights" and previously served as the Research Director at the Federmann Center for Cyber Security Research and Academic Director of the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014-2024).
Tal’s research focuses on the intersection of international law and technology, with a particular emphasis on digital human rights and the regulation of artificial intelligence in the battlefield. He earned his PhD in International Law from the Hebrew University under the supervision of Prof. Yuval Shany. His professional background includes serving as an Operational Legal Advisor in the Israel Defense Forces and working within the Department for International Agreements and Litigation at the Ministry of Justice. He has served on selection committees for NATO CCDCOE Cycon 2023.
Cedric Yehuda Sabbah is AI Governance Lead at Israel’s National Digital Agency since April 2025. He leads the Agency’s efforts to develop responsible AI policy and implement it in government ministries and agencies. His work aligns domestic developments with international frameworks like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO Responsible AI standards and the OECD AI Principles.
Prior to this, he was director of Emerging Technologies at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General for International Law, where he advised Israel’s National Cyber Directorate and other government departments on questions of cybersecurity, internet governance, artificial intelligence and information technology generally, as they relate to international law. He led negotiations on the AI Convention at the Council of Europe. In addition, he has served as Israel's delegate UNCITRAL and the Hague Conference on Private International Law, focusing on dispute resolution and technology.
He served as a foreign clerk at Israel's Supreme Court, then as legislative counsel in Canada’s Department of Justice (2002-2006). Cedric also worked as an M&A and hi-tech lawyer in the firm of Ephraim Abramson & Co in Jerusalem (2007-2011). He is a guest lecturer on AI governance, cybersecurity, internet governance and international law, and holds an LLB and LLM from the University of Montreal
Vered is a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University, Faculty of Law. Vered holds a wealth of practical experience in Cyber Law and Policy both at the national and international levels, gained from her previous roles as the Legal Advisor for Technology nd Cybersecurity Affairs at the Israel Defense Forces and as the Head of International Cyber Policy and Initiatives at the Israel ational Cyber Directorate.
She has led International Cyber Policy affairs, working closely with different governmental ministries in Israel as well as with international counterparts. Vered represented the State of Israel at the UN OEWG (Open-Ended Working Group) on cybersecurity affairs. She was a Vice-chair and bureau member of the Working Party on Security in the Digital Economy at the OECD.
During 2017-2019, Vered was a member of the steering committee of the Haifa University Cyber Law and Policy Research Center.
In recent years, she participated as a speaker in conferences and workshops on Cyber Law and Policy at Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, the National Defense College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel Vered holds Bachelor of laws (LL.B), Bar – Ilan University; Master of Laws (LL.M), Tel Aviv University; Master's Degree (M.A) Executive program, Security and Diplomacy, Tel Aviv University. In parallel to her PhD studies, Vered is a Partner and the Head of Cyber Affairs and AI Practice in Lipa Meir & Co. Advocates law firm.
Dr. Ayelet Gordon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at the Federmann Cybersecurity Center.
She currently serves as the academic director of the Just Lab, an ERC-funded project that explores how the law of unjust enrichment can be applied within the context of public policy.
Previously, she completed her PhD at the Hebrew University Law Faculty and held a postdoc research fellowship as a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative on Tech & Society.
Ayelet is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to law and technology, focusing her research on platform governance, power and liability, privacy, and data protection. She aims to bridge the gap between law and computer science, advocating for legal responses that are based on a meaningful understanding of the technology involved. Beyond her research, she is a member of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference Junior Scholars Council and serves on the ACM CS&LAW '26 Program Committee.
Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky is a senior lecturer (associate professor) at the University of Haifa Law School. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Reserach Center, the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, and a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School.
Yahli specializes in international law, focusing on international humanitarian law, international lawmaking, international legal theory, war and technology, and international criminal law.
Yahli received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was a Hans-Guth Dreyfus Fellow for Conflict Resolution and the Law and was enrolled in the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship Program. Yahli holds an LLB in Law and the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University. He clerked for the Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Eliezer Rivlin of the Supreme Court of Israel. Yahli’s work has been published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, The Michigan Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
Dr. Tomer Shadmy's research focuses on the governance of data-driven technologies, and on the impact of new technology on democracy and human rights. Her scholarship is situated in the burgeoning field of Law, Ethics, and Computer Science. She explores the regulation of social media platforms, data governance, and regulation and auditing of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Dr. Shadmy is a research fellow at The School of Computer Science & Engineering Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center.
She is an adjunct professor for Computer Science, Law and Ethics at Tel Aviv University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously she was a visiting professor at The University of Turin, and a research fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School and at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).
Dr. Thibault Moulin is a Tenured Associate Professor of Law and a member of the Confluence Research Unit at the Catholic University of Lyon. He also serves as a Research Associate at the HUJI Federmann Cyber Security Center and CERDAF. His professional background extends into the military sector, where he serves as an Officer in the Citizens' Reserve of the French Air & Space Force.
Dr. Amit Sheniak is the senior researcher at the Hebrew University James J. Shasha Center for Strategic Research (SCSR) and serves as the Cyber-security policy coordinator and techno-strategy analyst of the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) political military & policy bureau. He holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed a Post-doc at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government program for Science Technology and Society (STS). He is also a research fellow at the Hebrew University Cyber Security Research Center (HCSRC), the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, and the Haifa University Center for Cyber Law & Policy (CCLP).
His research and consultancy work focuses on the social and political effects of emerging and disruptive technologies, particularly regarding advanced digital infrastructures, cybersecurity conflicts, and AI policy. He investigates how these innovations affect international order, sovereignty, and legitimacy in the Middle East, the USA, and China. In addition to his research roles, he teaches as an adjacent professor at Tel-Aviv University, Reichman University, and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Over the past decades, he has served as a strategy analyst and policy advisor for the Israeli Parliament, the Ministry of Defense, and the IDF.
Rotem Medzini is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance.
His research examines digital governance through regulatory intermediation, focusing on whether, how, and why policymakers and private actors delegate responsibilities to actors who are neither regulators nor regulated entities. He studies the political economy behind this delegation and whether it helps manages the complexities of regulating digital technologies characterized by opacity, policy uncertainty, and power asymmetries.
Before joining the Hebrew University, Rotem was a Horizon Europe–UKRI Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he contributed to the three year ELSA (European Lighthouse on Safe and Secure AI) project. His work there investigated the legitimacy and effectiveness of emerging global “assurance” regulatory regimes for data driven services, particularly within the European Union. He also served as a research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg Essen. His PhD dissertation, Modes of Internet Governance: Enhanced Self Regulation via Regulatory Intermediation in Data Protection and Content Moderation, received the Best Dissertation Award in Memory of Dr. Yuval Shahal and introduced the concept of “enhanced self regulation.” His current research continues to explore why and how regulation, especially self regulation, expands online, and which new regulatory technologies policymakers, regulated organizations, and regulatory intermediaries employ to improve their legitimacy and credibility.
Dr. Tamar Berenblum is a Cyber Criminologist, with 15 years’ of experience in researching cyber crime, cyber security, social control in the cyber sphere and digitalization from a criminological perspective while focusing on the human factor. Tamar served as the research director of the The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program, Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. In the last few years, Tamar has been working as a Cyber Security Specialist in the fields of Breach Readiness, Cyber Threat, Security Governance, Identity Access Management, Data Security Management and Security Awareness. She is affiliated with several Universities and research institutes in Israel, US and the Netherlands as well as the co-chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Cybercrime.
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