פרופ' Shlomit Yenisky-Ravid

Shlomit Yenisky-Ravid is an associate professor of law, a full-time faculty member, at the Ono Academic Caria School of Law. Professor Yenisky-Ravid heads the program for a research master’s degree in law. She is the founder and academic director of the Shalom Institute for Comparative Research, and the Eliyahu Center for Law and Technology, the Ono Academic Library. Professor Shlomit Yenisky-Ravid’s latest research deals with intellectual property law (IP) and ethical and legal challenges of the digital age focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) systems, blockchain platforms, cyberspace, privacy and competition, from ethical and theoretical perspectives and while examining comparative and international aspects . Professor Yenisky-Ravid also researches and lectures in the fields of labor, equality, and competition law.

Professor Yinsky-Ravid is a visiting professor at Fordham University Law School (since 2012), where she teaches the courses “Intellectual Property and the Challenges of Advanced Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain” and previously: “Intellectual Property: Theoretical, Comparative and International Perspectives”. Professor Shlomit Yenisky-Rabid serves as the head of the “IP – AI & Blockchain” project at Fordham Law CLIP, established by the late Professor Joel Reidenberg, with whom she worked. At the same time, she serves as Professor Yenisky-Rabid as a research fellow at the Law School of YALE, ISP (since 2011).

She was recently named “the most important thinker on AI and copyright” at the American Copyright Society’s annual event by Judge Katherine Forrest.

Professor Yenisky-Ravid completed post-doctoral studies at the Yale University School of Law (2011), where she was responsible for two seminars: “Law and Society in Israel: Contemporary Issues” and “Advanced Legal Studies”. Since then, serves as a research fellow at the Yale University School of Law, ISP.

Professor Yenisky-Ravid has published many articles in her areas of expertise and has won prizes and scholarships for her work. Recently, she has been researching the challenges of advanced technology, focusing on AI systems, blockchain platforms and their impact on the legal regime. One of her studies, titled “Generating Rembrandt: Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and Accountability in the 3A Era—the Human-Like Workers are Already Here – A New Model” Here—A New Model” was selected as a visionary article in intellectual property law for 2017 and in addition won an award from the University of Michigan, USA. Her recent works and academic activity focus on the regulation and regulation of AI systems and their impact on AI systems, on the subject of facial recognition, machine vision and biometrics, which are controversial. Public. Her article “Privacy and Equality by Design” deals with information, which is fed to AI systems as the main source of biases, including in the workplace. The study, which proposes a new model of data transparency, was published in a special edition on AI and Big Data ULJ’s article “From the Myth of Babel to Google Translate” discusses, among other things, the biases of AI and the effects of blockchain platforms and smart contracts on various aspects of intellectual property ( such as patents and fashion design). Her article “The Right to Privacy and the Balloon Theory” was judged and selected by West (Thomson Reuters) Publishers as one of the best articles in law, published in 2014 in the USA, in the fields of entertainment, advertising and/or the arts, and published by them again in a special file.

Currently, she is writing a book, which discusses legal challenges arising from artificial intelligence systems that create works. After that, she hopes to write a book that will discuss her latest work on the blockchain platform and smart contracts in relation to the intellectual property regime, asking whether this technology constitutes the “promised land” or the “dark side of the moon”. Her work on the book “Intellectual Property in the Workplace: A Theoretical and Comparative Perspective” (Nevo Publishing in collaboration with Ono, 2013) won the Van Klecker Foundation Award, which was awarded to selected researchers and was described as an in-depth academic work in the field. The book has been cited in leading judgments in the field of intellectual property. Among the other awards she won for other research she did are the Minerva Center for Human Rights Fellowship as well as the Silbert Grant.

Professor Yenisky-Ravid has lectured in various settings at the leading universities around the world, among others: Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Columbia University, Miami University, New York University NYU, the Center for Labor Law, American University in the USA as well as at the University of Lausanne UNIL, in Switzerland, University of Urbino, Italy, Oxford and others. In addition, it has been actively cooperating, for more than a decade, with international organizations, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, and in the past with the International Labor Organization (ILO). ); the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne, where she conducted a research project in collaboration with the Ono Academic College for ten years, for the benefit of the Ono Academic College’s lecturers and students.

Professor Yenisky-Ravid is a member of many councils and forums around the world in her areas of expertise. She was elected in 2021 as a member of the prestigious American organization The American Law Institute (ALI); In recent years, she launched the AI-IP project as part of the Fordham Law CLIP that explored the challenges of advanced technology, especially artificial intelligence and blockchain on the subject of the intellectual property regime. In Israel she is a board member of leading associations in her fields of expertise.

She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in life sciences and psychology from Bar Ilan University, Israel (both with honors).
Bachelor’s degree in law, at Tel Aviv University, Israel (excellent dean 3 years in a row during her studies) and excellent degree. She completed her doctoral studies in a direct track for honors at the Hebrew University, followed by a post-doctorate at Yale University. Professor Yenisky-Ravid is the  first woman, who “grew up” at the law school of the Ono Academic College, who was awarded the title of associate professor by the Council for Higher Education.