Prof. Eyal Benvenisti

Eyal was the Whewell Chair of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, and directed the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law there. He is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and the Institut de Droit International. He was previously a faculty member at Tel Aviv University (2002-2017) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1990-2002) and on the Global Faculty of the New York University School of Law (2003-2015). He was a visiting lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Toronto and Pennsylvania Universities, and was a visiting researcher at the Humboldt Universities (Berlin), Munich, Hamburg, and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. In the summer of 2024 he taught the Academy of International Law's core course in The Hague. Prof. Benvenisti is co-editor of the British Yearbook of International Law and was an editorial board member of the American Journal of International Law. He has won the Landau Prize for Science and Research, the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, the Cheshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Research, and the Kader Prize for Breakthrough Research for a Senior Researcher at Tel Aviv University. Among his publications (in the context of democracy and law): Why the Principles of Human Dignity and Democracy Deny the Authority of the Knesset to Legislate Beyond the Borders of the State, Forum Iuni Mishpat 45 (2012), Judicial Criticism and the Failures of Democracy: On Information Gaps and Judicial Ways to Reduce Them, Iuni Mishpat (Lev) 277 (2010), Checks and Balances under the auspices of the Court, Mishpatim No(4) 797 (2016), Between Fragmentation and Democracy: The Role of National and International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with George W. Downs);; EJIL Foreword: Upholding Democracy amid the Challenges of New Technology: What Role for the Law of Global Governance?, 29 European J. Int'l L. 9 (2018); The Law of Global Governance (The Hague Academy of International Law "pocket book" series, 2014); Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: On the Accountability of States to Foreign Stakeholders, 107 American Journal of International Law 295 (2013).