Alaa Hajyahia

Alaa Hajyahia is a researcher and resident fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Alaa earned her LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2022 and is a Yale Gruber Fellow in Global Justice and a Graduate Fellow at the Yale Ethnography Hub.

Alaa’s scholarship has appeared in the Yale Journal of International Law, the UCLA Law Review, the London Review of International Law, TWAIL Review, and the Law and Political Economy Blog, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Ambrose Gherini Prize for the best paper in both public and private international law and the Raphael Lemkin Prize for outstanding work in international human rights.

At Yale, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law and Vice President of Scholarship at the Yale Society of International Law. Alaa has served as a judicial intern to Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chief Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, and Judge Darian Pavli of the European Court of Human Rights, and has interned at the American Society of International Law.

Prior to Yale, Alaa practiced law in Israel. She holds an LL.B., B.A., LL.M., and M.A., summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University