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Biography

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 (he served between 2018-2019 as Chair of the Committee). He is also a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and heads the CyberLaw program of the Hebrew University’s Federmann Cyber Security Research Center. He currently serves as visiting professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College in London and was an inaugural Accelerator Fellow at the Ethics and AI Institute at Oxford University (2024-2025).