Eyal Benvenisti

Eyal Benvenisti is a Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean ’70 Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is also the academic director of the Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University. Prior to his work at Tel Aviv University, he was the Whewell Professor of International Law and director of the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He has also held titled teaching positions at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has held academic appointments and lectureships internationally for 30 years. He has been the co-editor-in-chief for the British Yearbook of International Law and has previously served as part of the editorial board for the American Journal of International Law and International Law in Domestic Courts (Oxford University Press) among others. He is author to many books, most recently “Occupation in International Law” (Oxford University Press, 2022); articles; book chapters; and more. Benvenisti earned an LL.B. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School.