Yuval Shany Explained

Yuval Shany
Birth Date:	28 March 1969
Birth Place:	Israel
Discipline:	Law
Sub Discipline:	Humanitarian law, Human rights

Yuval Shany is an Israel academic, scholar of humanitarian law and human rights.^[1] He holds the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law at Hebrew University. In 2018, Shany was elected Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a committee of scholars who review compliance of member states with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As of 2018, he is deputy president of the Israel Democracy Institute.^{[2] [3]}

Shany holds an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1995), an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University (1997), and a PhD in International Law from the SOAS, University of London (2001).^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: Cohen . Roger . 2023-12-10 . Who’s a ‘Colonizer’? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon . 2024-07-07 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
2. News: Winer . Stuart . For the first time, Israeli expert chosen to chair UN Human Rights Committee . 5 September 2018 . Times of Israel . 3 July 2018.
3. News: For the First Time, an Israeli Will Head UN Human Rights Committee . 5 September 2018 . JTA . Haaretz . 4 July 2018.
4. Web site: Yuval Shany faculty bio . Hebrew University .