The Center comprises 23 researchers from the fields of law, economics, environmental science, psychology, medicine, and business administration.
Scientific Steering Committee
Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran - Faculty of Law
Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Public law, social diversity, and public policy
Prof. Yuval Feldman
Faculty of Law and Department of Psychology
Research areas:
Behavioral law, regulatory compliance, and organizational ethics
Dr. Orit Rotem
Head of the Multidisciplinary School of Sustainability and the Environment
Research areas:
Environmental policy, sustainability, and environmental law
Affiliated Researchers
Prof. Keren Agay-Shay
Faculty of Medicine
Research areas:
Environmental epidemiology and the effects of the environment on public healt
Prof. Lior Elbaz
Department of Chemistry
Research areas:
Renewable energy, nanomaterials, and fuel cells
Prof. Michal Alberstein
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Dispute resolution, mediation, and legal theory
Prof. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
Head of the Lab for Law, Information Science, and Digital Ethics, Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Constitutional law, legislation, and law in the digital age
Prof. Nadav Davidovitch
Head of Health Policy at the Taub Center, Faculty of Health Sciences
Research areas:
Epidemiology and public health
Prof. Malachi Noked
Department of Chemistry
Research areas:
Batteries, energy storage, and advanced materials
Prof. Shai Stern
Head of the Institute for Strategy and Haredi Policy, Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Property and environmental regulation
Prof. Anat Tchetchik
Department of Environmental Studies, Planning and Sustainability
Research areas:
Environmental economics, sustainability, and consumer behavior
Dr. Dan Baras
Department of Philosophy
Research areas:
Ethics (including climate ethics) and meta-ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of science
Dr. Eliran Halali
Head of the Social-Organizational Psychology Program, Department of Psychology
Research areas:
Psychology of decision-making, judgment, cooperation, and behavioral ethics
Dr. Yaakov Habba
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Jewish criminal law, Jewish law of evidence
Dr. Daniel Chaim
Faculty of Law
Dr. Eli Yitzhak
Department of Environmental Studies, Planning and Sustainability
Research areas: Mapping, research, and GIS technologies. He leads the development of the Center's geospatial data repository, based on GIS and GeoAI technologies.
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Dr. Uri Katz
Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Contract law, behavioral analysis of law, empirical legal analysis, and artificial intelligence in legal contexts
Dr. Hanan Mandel
Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Dispute resolution, technology and law, arbitration law, and the environment
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Dr. Ayelet Sela
Head of the Lab for Law, Data, and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Law
Dr. Omer Feld
Faculty of Law
Research areas:
Torts, economic analysis of private law, statistics, and law
Dr. Dikla Peretz
Graduate School of Business Administration
Dr. Eeli Retig
Head of Energy Studies at the Begin-Sadat Center, Department of Political Science
Research areas:
Energy policy
Postdoc Fellows
Dr. Bee Baharier
- Livability Under Extreme Conditions
Dr. Hila Segal
Livability Under Extreme Conditions
Research Staff
Nimrod Geva
Attorney and Researcher in Environmental Regulation and Climate Policy
Adv. Nimrod Geva holds an LL.B from Bar-Ilan University, has been a licensed attorney since 2019, and specializes in environmental regulation. He is currently pursuing an MA in the Environmental Regulation and Policy program at Bar-Ilan University and is a researcher at the Center. In addition to his research work, Adv. Geva serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal "Law and Environment" and as Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research at the Open University of Israel.
Shimon Dick
Doctoral Research Student
The transition to a low-carbon economy is expected to drive a dramatic increase in battery use. However, battery regulation presents a distinctive challenge for environmental law due to global value chains, scientific and technological uncertainty, and overlapping regulatory regimes. This research examines the regulatory challenges posed by transboundary environmental risks in emerging technologies, using battery regulation as its principal case study and green hydrogen to explore experimental regulation.
Dadi Neeman
Analysis of Digital Motivations to Reduce Electricity Consumption in Urban Households in Israel
This research examines how digital behavioral interventions based on consumer feedback and gamification can encourage electricity conservation among urban households in Israel. The study will employ a field experiment comparing the effectiveness of digital feedback alone with a combined feedback and gamification intervention on actual household electricity consumption. It will also assess whether behavioral changes persist after the intervention ends. The findings are expected to advance the understanding of behavioral regulation (Nudge) in the