Prof. Yuval Shany is an IDI Senior Fellow and the director of IDI's Terror and Democracy research program. He also holds the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and serves as one of the directors of the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), and the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases).
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). He has published a large number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and on other issues in international law such as international human rights and international humanitarian law. (Among other issues, his writings deal with the promotion of human rights in constitutional texts, human rights and the laws of occupation, and shifting paradigms in the war against terror.) The latest book he co-authored—The Manual on International Courts and Tribunals—was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.
In recent years, Prof. Shany has been a research fellow at Harvard University and Amsterdam University, as well as a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Michigan University Law School, Columbia University Law School and the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney.
Prof. Shany is the editor of IDI's Terror and Democracy Newsletter with Adv. Ido Rosenzweig.
email: yshany@mscc.huji.ac.il