Shani Schnitzer

Shani is a research student in the direct doctoral track at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, supervised by Prof. Assaf Lachovsky and Prof. Yoram Shahar. Her research interests are legal history, public law, and criminal law, and her doctoral thesis deals with "hidden actors" in the shaping of early Israeli law.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws (with honors) from Tel Aviv University, as well as two previous degrees (both with honors): a Bachelor of Laws in East Asian Studies from Tel Aviv University and a Master of Laws (MA) from Bar-Ilan University. After her Bachelor of Laws, she completed an internship in consulting and legislation at the Ministry of Justice.

In parallel with her doctoral studies, Shani teaches the course "Legal Text Analysis" at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and the course "Legal Methods" at the Reichman University School of Law. In 2020–2023, she was part of the blog team of the Israeli branch of ICON-S , first as the blog editor and then as the editor-in-chief and blog director and editor of ICON-S Essays.