Dafna Dror-Shpoliansky is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law. She is a research fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center at the Hebrew University.  Since September 2020 Dafna is a Visiting Doctoral Student at University of Toronto, where she teaches Public International law and New Technologies. Dafna was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Ethics of AI and a research assistant at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at University of Toronto. In addition, Dafna served as a consultant for the OECD on rights in the digital age. 

Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Dafna was a legal counsel at the Office of the Deputy Attorney General of Israel (International Law Department).

Dafna's paper, co-authored with Prof. Yuval Shany, on the typology of digital human rights ("It’s the End of the (Offline) World as We Know It: From Human Rights to Digital Human Rights – A Proposed Typology"), was published at the European Journal for International Law.