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.
Yuval's Research:
* Re-conceptualizing Digital Rights
* Regulation of Communication Networks Surveillance and the Principle of Proportionality
* Regulating Military Applications of Cyber Enhancement of Humans
* The Prospects for an International Attribution Mechanism for Cyber Operations
* The Tallinn Manual on Cyber Operations and the Laws of War: Towards Customary International Law
Yuval's Research Group:
* Research Group on Regulation of Cyber Security Standards for Private Market
Yuval's Blog:
* Israel’s Version of Moving Fast and Breaking Things: The New Cybersecurity Bill
* Israel, Cyberattacks and International Law
* From Rule of Law to Rule of Community Standards?
* Approaches to International Cyberlaw: A View from Israel
* Cyberspace: The Final Frontier of Extra-Territoriality in Human Rights Law
* On-Line Surveillance in the case-law of the UN Human Rights Committee
Listen to Prof. Shany in the TLV1 Podcast on 'Private Eyes: Data, Metadata and Civil Rights'