Professor Yuval Shany
International law expert and former Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee, addressing digital human rights and implementation of the AI Bill of Rights during his time on the programme.
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and a Visiting Professor in the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) at King's College, London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee between 2013-2020 (chairing the Committee between 2018-2019).
His current research focuses on international human rights law and new technology and he leads a European Research Council group or researchers investigating the three generation of digital human rights (3GDR).
Shany is an honorary fellow of the Senior Common Room at Magdalen College (2023-2024) and an inaugural Accelerator Fellow.