Shani Schnitzer

Public and criminal law researcher and historian of Israeli law. She is writing a doctorate at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and teaches at that faculty and at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University. She was previously editor-in-chief and director of the leading blog on public law in Israel, ICON-S-IL Blog. She has won the Tsegela Prize and commendations from the Israeli History Organization and the Israeli Law and Society Association, as well as awards for excellence in teaching. Her research deals, among other things, with the relations between the government authorities in Israel and their historical and contemporary shaping, with an emphasis on the effects on the rule of law and democracy.