Brief Bio

Prof. Yaël Ronen is a senior research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights and a teaching fellow at the Faculty of Law, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her LLB (1992) and LLM (1995) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD (2006) from the University of Cambridge, England. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Prof. Ronen served for nearly a decade as a career diplomat and lawyer in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was a member of the Israeli team in the negotiations over the Israel-Palestinian Interim Agreement (the Oslo Accord).

Prof. Ronen is the academic editor of the Israel Law Review (CUP), a journal of human rights, international and public law. She teaches advanced courses in international law, including non-state actors in international law, international human rights law, and children’s rights in international law. She is editor of the Minerva Center’s human rights blog, and is the academic instructor of the IHRL clinic and the human rights in cyberspace clinic at the Faculty’s Clinical Law Education Center.

Prof. Ronen’s scholarship focuses on issues of non-state actors and territorial status, and their intersection with other areas of international law, including human rights and international criminal law. She has published extensively on occupation, self-determination, human rights and international criminal law, including in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and East Jerusalem. Her book publications include The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (with David Kretzmer, 2nd edn, OUP 2021), Transition from Illegal Regimes under International Law (CUP 2011), and The Iran Nuclear Issue (Hart/Bloomsbury 2010).

In recent years Prof. Ronen has been directing the Digest of Israeli Practice in International Law project.