Yuval Shany
Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2022
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 during 2018-2019 he also served as Chair of the Committee. He is a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and the head of the CyberLaw program of the Hebrew University CyberSecurity Research Center. He co-directs this year the Center for Transnational Legal Studies at King’s College in London.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
