Yael Ronen

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Yaël Ronen (@YaelRonen5) is Professor of Law at the Academic Center for Science and Law, Hod Hasharon, a senior research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research associate at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program. She is also the academic editor of the Israel Law Review, published by Cambridge University Press. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between issues of territorial status and other areas of international law, particularly human rights and self-determination. She has published extensively on issues relating to occupation, human rights and international criminal law, including but not only in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In recent years she has been directing of the Digest of Israeli Practice in International Law project.

Yaël received her LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD from the University of Cambridge, England. Prior to embarking on an academic career, she was a career diplomat and lawyer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was a member of the Israeli team in the negotiations over the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (the Oslo Accord).

Yaël’s book publications include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (with David Kretzmer; 2nd, revised edition, OUP 2021) and  Transition from Illegal Regimes under International Law (CUP 2011). Among her recent articles are “The Right to Self-determination, Occupation and the Law”, 67 Japanese Yearbook of Int’l L. (forthcoming), and “Schrodinger’s Occupation: West Jerusalem 1948–1949” 58 Texas Int’l L. J. 119–146 (2023). She is also on LinkedIn.