Eyal Benvenisti is the Academic Director of the Center for the Applied Research of Risks to Democracy at Tel Aviv University. Benvenisti previously served as Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, where he was also Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (from 2016). He was also Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (from 2002) and Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of Law at the Hebrew University (from 1990). Additionally, he has served as Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (since 2003) and Visiting Professor at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and he delivered the General Course at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2024, as well as a special course in 2013. In Fall 2025, Benvenisti will return as a visiting professor at Yale Law School. Professor Benvenisti is the recipient of several prizes including the Humboldt Research Award and the Francis Deak Prize. He is Member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the Institut de droit international, Co-Editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, and an Honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law. Eyal’s most recent publications include: OCCUPATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford University Press, 2022, with Eliav Lieblich); BETWEEN FRAGMENTATION AND DEMOCRACY: THE ROLE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS (Cambridge University Press, 2017, with George W. Downs); The WHO —Destined To Fail?: Political Cooperation and the Covid-19 Pandemic, 114 AMERICAN J. INT’L. L. 588 (2020); Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874 31 EUROPEAN J INT’L L. 127 (2020) (With Doreen Lustig); THE LAW OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE (The Hague Academy of International Law “pocket book” series, 2014); EJIL Foreword: Upholding Democracy amid the Challenges of New Technology: What Role for the Law of Global Governance?, 29 European J. Int’l L. 9 (2018); Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity: On the Accountability of States to Foreign Stakeholders, 107 AMERICAN J. INT’L. L. 295 (2013).