Prof. Yuval Shany to Receive President's Prize for Outstanding Researcher

Prof. Yuval Shany to Receive President's Prize for Outstanding Researcher

Prof. Yuval Shany of the Hebrew University is to receive the 2010 Hebrew University President's Prize for Outstanding Researcher on January 24, 2010.

The prize is awarded in memory of Prof. Yoram Ben Porat (z''l), former President and Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to Hebrew University President Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, the prize is being awarded to Prof. Shany for his impressive number of innovative, groundbreaking publications, and decoration of international awards. ''The university also recognizes his excellence and has awarded him with a rare rapid advancement to professorship. In addition, his natural integration into faculty life and his contribution to the faculty as a senior staff member is a sign of the successful absorption of a young researcher.''

Prof. Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, a director in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, a director in the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT), a member of the steering committee of the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases) and as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.

Prof. Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B, 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997) and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001). He has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights and international humanitarian law. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Society of International Law book award (creative legal scholarship) and a 2008 recipient of a European Research Council grant of $1 million euros awarded to pioneering research leaders.

Prof. Shany has taught in a number of law schools in Israel, and has been in recent years a research fellow in Harvard and Amsterdam Universities, and a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Michigan University Law School. He has also taught international law at the University of Sydney and is currently teaching at the Columbia University Law School.

The award ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. on Sunday, January 24, 2010, in the Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Mount Scopus campus.