Eyal Benvenisti

Room 334 Minkoff Building
Phone: ++972 - 3 - 6406426
Fax: ++972 - 3 - 6405849
E-Mail: ebenve@post.tau.ac.il
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Faculty of Law,Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Previously Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law.  LL. B. (1984), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.M. (1988) and J.S.D. (1990), Yale Law School. Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law (2002-2005), Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University (2000-2002).

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 (1997-2002, Editor in Chief 2003-2006).

Global Law Faculty, New York University School of Law (since 2003), Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Michigan School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. 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..

Areas of teaching and research include international law, constitutional law and administrative law.

Publications include Sharing Transboundary Resources: International Law and Optimal Resource Use (Cambridge University Press, 2002), The International Law of Occupation (Princeton University Press, 1993, second edition forthcoming with Oxford University Press 2010),  Reclaiming Democracy: The Strategic Uses of Foreign and International Law by National Courts, 102 AM. J. INT’L. L 241 (April 2008)The Empire’s New Clothes: Political Economy and the Fragmentation of International Law, 60 STAN. L. REV. 101 (2007) (with George W. Downs), , Exit and Voice in the Age of Globalization, 98 MICH. L. REV. 167 (1999), Collective Action in the Utilization of Shared Freshwater: The Challenges of International Water Resources Law, 90 AM. J. INT’L. L. 384 (1996), and Judicial Misgivings regarding the Application of International Norms: An Analysis of Attitudes of National Courts, 4 EUROP. J. INT’L. L. 159 (1993).