Professor Orna Ben-Naftali is a full professor and a member of the Haim Striks Faculty of Law, where she served as Dean (2008-2011) and where she holds the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights. She served as Rector of the College of Management Academic Studies (COLMAN) (2019-2021). She holds an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University (1982), an MA (History) from Harvard University (1986) and an M.A.L.D. (1985) and a Ph.D (1990) from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Professor Ben-Naftali taught at Brandeis University, was the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence and a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.

She worked at the Department of Peacekeeping Operation, the United Nations.

Prof. Ben-Naftali served on the editorial board of the European Journal of International Law, and on the advisory board of editors of Humanity and of the Max Planck Trialogue on the Laws of War and Peace.

She served as a board member of B’tselem – the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories; Chairwoman of the board of Yesh-Din – Volunteers for Human Rights and Chairwoman of the Sapir Prize in Literature Committee.

She is the co-author of four books; numerous articles and book chapters in the field of international law. Her most recent book (co-authored with Michael Sfard and Hedi Viterbo) is The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Cambridge University Press 2018) which won the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merits (2019). Her Research Interests and teaching include International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Culture.