Prof. Yuval Shany is an IDI Senior Fellow and the director of IDI's Terror and Democracy research program. He holds the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and a Director in the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT). Prof. Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B, 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997) and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001) and he has published a number of books and articles on international courts and tribunals, as well as on other international law issues such as international human rights and humanitarian law.
email: yshany@mscc.huji.ac.il