Tal Mimran

Tal

Mimran

Tal's research aims at exploring the role of new duty holders in the international plane - and particularly big-tech companies.

While International law is, by and large, a State-centric enterprise, we have witnessed in recent years that States growingly rely on big-tech companies in relation to cyberspace, including in connection to national critical infrastructures.

tates also rely on the private sector also in development of new technologies, with dual-use applications, and in their cyber-defense operations.

The role of Microsoft in Ukraine is a case in point.

Against this backdrop, Tal seeks to understand if the time has come to increase the role of tech-companies in international discussion concerning the application of law to cyberspace

and in the creation and maintenance of mechanisms that cope with the challenges and risks of the digital age.

Dr. Tal Mimran is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Academic Coordinator of the International Law Forum of the Hebrew University, and the Research Director of the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University. Tal also directs a program on digital human rights in Tachlit (an Israeli think and do tank), and teaches international law and law and technology at the Peres Academic College and at the Zefat Academic College. Tal served in the past as a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, edited an online human rights journal, and worked as a legal adviser in the Israeli Ministry of Justice. Tal also served, in reserve duty, as a legal adviser in the Israel Defense Forces (international law department).

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