People
Center management
Prof. Daniel Benoliel is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, Director of the Haifa Center for Law and Technology (HCLT), and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC)
Academic Faculty
Prof. Nitzan Geslevich Packin is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Deputy Director at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy. She is also the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College (CUNY), and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Member
Prof. Michal S. Gal is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the Head of the Forum on Law and Markets, and President of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
Prof. Tal Zarsky is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and a world expert in data protection, algorithmic governance, and information law
Prof. Orna Rabinovich-Einy is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the Head of the Haifa Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program
Dr. Yifat Aran is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and a Research Fellow at the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky is a law professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and served as a Grotius Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School
Dr. Dalit Ken-Dror Feldman is the Director of the Law, Technology and Cyber Clinic at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law
Prof. Moran Ofir is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and a member of the Audit, Remuneration, Strategy, and Capital Planning Committees. She is also a co-founder of the "Chaverot" Forum, which serves as a platform for women academics in the fields of commercial-business law, intending to promote gender equality through mutual support
Honorary Fellows
Dr. Aya Soffer is Vice President of AI Technologies and the Director of the IBM Research Lab in Israel. In her 26 years at IBM, Dr. Soffer has led several initiatives that grew into successful IBM products and solutions in the Big Data and AI space, including the original Watson system and Project Debater. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers, filed over 15 patents, and served as an invited speaker at many conferences. As a Vice President in IBM Research, Dr. Soffer works on shaping IBM...
Senior Fellows
Dotan Oliar is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. His scholarship focuses on human creativity. He researches and teaches in the areas of intellectual property law, property theory, entrepreneurship, art law, and cyberlaw, and uses methodologies such as law and economics, empirical and behavioral methods, and legal history. His projects include empirical analyses of copyright registrations at the U.S. Copyright Office, first possession in intellectual property law, the interaction between...
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita at New York University School of Law and co-Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). She is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), the University of California, Berkeley (MS), and Columbia University School of Law...
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde is Professor of Law and Economics at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Sorbonne Universités) and Professor of Law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His research lies at the intersection of legal theory, economics, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on the representation of non-human interests, the rights of nature, and the institutional implications of artificial intelligence for law and public decision-making. He is the author of several books...
Ethan Katsh is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts. With Janet Rifkin, he established and, for many years, directed the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution. The Center (odr.info) continues to be the primary focal point of online and offline activities involving Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). Professor Katsh is considered to be the founder of the field of online dispute resolution. In his first book, The Electronic Media and the Transformation...
Prof. Joshua D. Sarnoff is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law at DePaul University College of Law. He was a consultant to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool from 2021 to 2023, has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Intellectual Property Subcommittee, and from 2014 to 2015 was a Thomas A. Edison Distinguished Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a registered patent attorney and private consultant, having served...
Prof. Peter K. Yu is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor of Law and Communication, and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics,...
Prof. Katherine Strandburg concentrates her teaching and research in the areas of information privacy law, law and technology, patent law and innovation policy. Her scholarship considers how the law in these areas should reflect the importance of collaboration and social interactions and respond to technological change. Her legal analysis is informed by studies of knowledge commons governance and user innovation. She is the Faculty Director of the interdisciplinary
NYU Information Law Institute,...
Prof. Radim Polčák is the Vice-Rector of Masaryk University, professor at the Institute of Law and Technology of the Faculty of Law of MU, and visiting professor at Georg-August Universität Göttingen, the Czech Judicial Academy, and the Slovak Judicial Academy. He engages in information technology law, including cybersecurity law and cyber-defence law. He has made significant contributions to the development of the legal regulatory framework for cybersecurity in the Czech Republic and the European...
Prof. iur. Andreas Heinemann is a Professor of Commercial, Economic, and European Law at the University of Zurich and a permanent visiting professor at the University of Lausanne. After studying economics and law, he was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur de Droit Comparé from the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg and the Diplôme International d'Administration Publique (DIAP) from the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), then in Paris. He passed his bar exam in Berlin and completed...
Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in
Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist is the editor of several copyright books,...
Prof. Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton is a Professor and the Raoul Wallenberg Chair in Human Rights at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the fields of intellectual property, law and technology, and property law. Prof. Marcowitz-Bitton has published books and articles for more than a decade and edited academic books, including an interdisciplinary volume on intellectual property and a retirement volume in honor of Justice Elyakim Rubinstein. Her primary areas of work are...
Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler is the Boxer Family Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the NYU Law School Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires, director of the Jacobson Program in Law and Business, and co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Organization. Her teaching and research interests are contracts, consumer contracts, privacy, electronic commerce, and the regulation of online transactions. Her published research has empirically addressed various...
Prof. Keun Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Chung-Ang University and an emeritus at Seoul National University, a Fellow of the CIFAR, the President of the Korean Economic Association, and the chairman of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He is also an editor of Research Policy and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate China. He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up, and also the 2019 Kapp Prize by EAEPE. Also, the...
Dr. Volker Stocker heads the multidisciplinary research group “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (German Internet Institute) in Berlin. He is also a senior researcher in the Internet Architecture and Management Group at TU Berlin, an associated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, a research fellow at the Quello Center at Michigan State University, and an affiliated scholar with the Dynamic Competition...
Dr. Vera Shikhelman is a senior researcher at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Dispute Resolution Automation Lab (DRA). Her research focuses on empirical analysis of international dispute resolution institutions and the incorporation of AI into national and international dispute resolution institutions. Vera graduated with an LL.B. Degree in Law and a minor in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After that, she obtained an LL.M. degree from Columbia University in the...
Founding Fellows
Niva Elkin-Koren is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She is the academic director of the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation, and a member of the Academic Management Committee of the TAU Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Before joining Tel Aviv University, she served as the Dean...
Michael Birnhack is a full professor at the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is a researcher and lecturer in the fields of law and technology in general, and focuses on the field of privacy and intellectual property. He began his academic career as a faculty member at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa, where he co-founded the Center for Law and Technology with Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren. In 2007, he moved to the faculty in Tel Aviv. To date, he has published five books, edited four...
Academic Visitors
Research Students
Ms. Ofri Rechavi is a lab researcher, advised by Prof. Orna Rabinovitch-Einy. Ofri specializes in qualitative research methods at the Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA) Lab at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa
Dr. Talia Schwartz Maor is a post-doctoral fellow, advised by Prof Orna Rabinovitch-Einy, at the Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA) Lab at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa
Dr. Eran Itskovich is a post-doctoral fellow, advised by Prof. Orna Rabinovitch-Einy, at the Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA) Lab at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa
Ms. Monaya Nasser Eldeen is an LLM student, advised by Prof. Daniel Benoliel. Monaya is a researcher of "From Rights to Algorithms: A Gender-Responsive Framework for Fair and Accountable AI in the Public Sector"
Ms. Danit Ronen is a lab researcher, advised by Prof. Orna Rabinovitch-Einy. Danit is researching “online sexual harassment” at the Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA) Lab at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa
Ms. Alex Feigelman is a lab researcher, advised by Prof. Orna-Rabinovitch-Einy. Alex is researching “issue of trust in the use of artificial intelligence in the legal system” at the Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA) Lab at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa
Mr. Adiel Eithan Mustaki is a Phd student, advised by Prof. Michal S. Gal. Adiel is researching "Modern Journalism and Competition Law"
Mr. Gilad Gafni is a PHD student, advised by Prof. Elder Haber. Gilad is researching "Regulation of Human Digital Replica Uses and the Implications of Deepfake Technologies in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence"
