About
Prof. Yaël Ronen is Professor of public international law at the Academic Center for Science and Law in Israel. She is also a research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; and academic editor of the Israel Law Review, published by and Cambridge University Press. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, following an LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Prior to embarking on an academic career, Professor Ronen served almost a decade as a career diplomat and lawyer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was a member of the Israeli team in the Oslo Process. She also represented Israel in various human rights fora, and served as spokesperson in the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India.
Areas of Research
Public international law (statehood and territorial status, non-state actors)
International criminal law
International humanitarian law
International human rights law
Courses
Public international law
International criminal law
Private international law
Law and cyberspace
Academic writing
Selected Publications
- (with David Kretzmer), The Occupation of Justice (2nd, expanded ed, Oxford University Press 2021)
- ‘International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West Bank’ in Omer Bartov (ed), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (Berghahn Books 2021)
- ‘Responsibility of Businesses operating in the Israeli Settlements in the West Bank’ in Joseph David, Yaël Ronen, Yuval Shany and Joseph Weiler (eds), Against the Wind: Strengthening Human Rights Protections in the 2020s (Oxford University Press 2021)
- ‘Limited Statehood and the Rule of Law: East Jerusalem’s Education System as a Case Study’ in Linda Hamid and Jan Wouters (eds) Rule of Law and Areas of Limited Statehood (Edward Elgar 2021)
- ‘International Human Rights Law in Situations of Extraterritorial Hostilities: The Unregulated Rights’ in Robin Geiss and Heike Krieger (eds) The Legal Pluriverse Surrounding Extraterritorial Military Operations (OUP 2020)
- ‘Terrorism and Freedom of Expression’ in Ben Saul (ed), Research Handbook on Terrorism and International Law (Edward Elgar 2nd edn 2020)
- ‘Palestine in the ICC: Statehood and the Right to Self-determination in the Absence of Effective Control’, 18 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2020)
- ‘The ICC and Nationals of Non-Party States’ in Gerhard Werle and Andreas Zimmermann (eds), The International Criminal Court in Turbulent Times (TMC Asser 2019) 83-110
- ‘The DoD Conception of the Law of Occupation’ in Michael Newton (ed) The United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual: Commentary and Critique 298-333 (CUP 2019)
- ‘The Use of International Jurisprudence in Domestic Courts: The Israeli Experience’ in Marlene Wind (ed) International Courts and Domestic Politics 296-319 (CUP 2018)
- ‘Taking the Settlements to the ICC? Substantive Issues’ 111 AJIL Unbound 57-61 (2017)
- (with Amir Paz-Fuchs) ‘Integrated or Segregated? Israeli-Palestinian Employment Relations in the Settlements’ in Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor (eds), Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements 172-192 (Indiana University Press 2017)
- ‘Functions and Access’ in William Schabas and Shannonbrooke Murphy (eds), Research Handbook on International Courts and Tribunals (Edward Elgar, 2017)
- 'Big Brother’s Little Helpers: The Right to Privacy and the Responsibility of Internet Service Providers' 31(80). Utrecht J of Int’l and European Law 72-86, DOI: (2015)
- ‘A Century of the Law of Occupation’ 17 Yearbook of Int’l Humanitarian Law 169-188 (2014)
- Transition from Illegal Regimes under International Law (CUP 2011)
- The Iranian Nuclear Issue (Hart 2010)
