Eyal Benvenisti


Eyal Benvenisti is an attorney and legal academic, and Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law. Since 2003 he has been part of the Global Law Faculty at New York University School of Law. He is the founding co-editor of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, where he served as Editor in Chief. He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law, and International Law in Domestic Courts.

Early life and education

Benvenisti was born in Israel in 1959. He attended local schools. He earned his LL. B. at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He went to the United States for graduate work, where he received a Master's in Law and J.S.D., Yale Law School.

Academic career

He returned to Jerusalem, where he started his academic career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in international law.
In addition to teaching and research, he served as Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University. He was Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law.
He is currently a professor of human rights at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law. His areas of teaching and research include international law, constitutional law and administrative law.
He has served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Michigan School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Toronto Law School, University of Hamburg Institute of Law & Economics. A Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University and the University of Munich and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law at Heidelberg.
Since 2003 he has been part of the Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law.
Serves on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of International Law, and International Law in Domestic Courts. Founding Co-Editor, Theoretical Inquiries in Law.
Associate Member, Institut de Droit International.
In 2012 he won the European Research Council Advanced Grant. The research will held at Tel Aviv University.
In May 2015, he was elected Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He took up this appointment in January 2016, and also became Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

Publications

Books