Eyal Benvenisti

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Eyal Benvenisti  (LinkedIn – X) is the Academic Director of the Center for the Applied Research of Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University.Benvenisti was Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, where he was also Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (from 2016), Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (from 2002) and Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of Law at the Hebrew University (from 1990). He was Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (since 2003). He was Visiting Professor at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and gave the General Course (2024) and a special course at The Hague Academy of International Law (2013).

Professor Benvenisti is the recipient of several prizes including the Humboldt Research Award and the Francis Deak Prize. He is Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the Institut de droit international, Co-Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, and an Honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law. Eyal’s most recent publications include: Occupation in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2022, with Eliav Lieblich); Between Fragmentation and Democracy: The Role of National and International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with George W. Downs); The WHO —Destined To Fail?: Political Cooperation and the Covid-19 Pandemic, 114 American J. Int’l. L. 588 (2020); Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874, 31 European J Int’l L. 127 (2020) (With Doreen Lustig); The Law of Global Governance (The Hague Academy of International Law “pocket book” series, 2014);  EJIL Foreword: Upholding Democracy amid the Challenges of New Technology: What Role for the Law of Global Governance?, 29 European J. Int’l L. 9 (2018); Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: On the Accountability of States to Foreign Stakeholders, 107 American J. Int’l. L. 295 (2013).