Yuval
Shany
Prof. Shany oversees the work of the entire research team.
In addition, he explores the conditions in international law for recognizing new human rights, the adaptability of existing international human rights law to meet the challenges of the digital age
and the considerations relied upon by decision makers when selecting different right-protecting approaches.
He is also particularly interested in the right to a human decision maker.
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 and served for one year during that time as Chair of the Committee. He serves, at present, as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and as the head of the CyberLaw program of the Hebrew University’s Federmann Cyber Security Research Center. He has published extensively on international courts and tribunals, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. In recent years, his research focuses on international law in cyberspace and digital human rights.