Ayelet Sela is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Law Data & AI Lab at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. Member of BIU’s Data Science and AI Institute, and a non-resident Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. Her work examines how justice systems use digital tools and procedural innovation to enhance dispute system design, access to justice and procedural justice, and how legal practice evolves as AI enters. holds a JSD and JSM from Stanford Law School and an LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Prof. Oren Perez is a Full Professor at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law and Director of the Center of Environmental and Climate Law. He previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Law and later headed the BIU School of Sustainability and Environment. His work spans environmental law, legal theory, networks, and e-democracy. Perez holds degrees from Tel Aviv University and the London School of Economics, where he completed his PhD.

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Member of the Executive Board, Data-Science & AI Institute; Senior Fellow, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Digital Governance; General Editor, The Theory and Practice of Legislation; member of the Executive Board, International Association of Legislation; Co-Chair of the Israeli Association of Legislation. J.S.D. and LL.M. (James Kent Scholar), Columbia Law School; LL.B. (magna cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research areas: law & AI; legisprudence, legislation & regulation; constitutional law & constitutional theory.

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Yuval Feldman (PhD, UC Berkeley) is the Mori Lazarof Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, where he is the head of the ERC-funded Voluntary Compliance Lab and the Associate Dean for Research. He is also a professor (by courtesy) in the Psychology Department of Bar-Ilan. His areas of research include Behavioral Analysis of Law, Experimental Law and Economics, Behavioral Ethics, Computational Law, Regulation, and Compliance. He has received numerous national and international fellowships, awards and grants.

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Omer Pelled is an Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. His research uses economic analysis of law to study how AI and data reshape private law, with a focus on contract design, contract negotiations, and informed consent to medical treatment. He also designs liability regimes for AI-powered devices that rely on aggregate outcomes rather than case-by-case fault, to create optimal incentives for care and innovation.

Ella Corren is an Assistant Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University. Her scholarship and teaching span Law and Technology, Law and Economics, Privacy, Contracts, Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, Regulation of the Information Economy, Private Law Theory, and Empirical Legal Studies. She holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law.

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I am an assistant professor at the BIU Faculty of Law. My research centers on contract law, behavioral law and economics, and human- and AI-based judicial decision-making, drawing on theoretical, observational, and experimental methods. I teach Contract Law and Legal Research Methods. I hold an LL.B. in Law and Psychology (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University. I clerked for Justice Hanan Melcer at the Supreme Court, was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, and also hold rabbinical ordination.

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Dr. Gilad Mills is an Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University Law and a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. His research focuses on digital technology regulation, with an emphasis on the role of private law-based mechanisms (torts, contracts) in technology governance. Gilad’s research and teaching further engage with technology's impact on individual rights and democratic resilience, examining the law & tech interplay from doctrinal, theoretical, and historical perspectives. 

Background: 3 years implementing AI in law firms, advising legal tech companies, and training lawyers and students in legal AI. Founder of LegalFlow Academy. Research: Developed the LPRE (Legal Process Reverse Engineering) methodology — a systematic approach for extracting tacit knowledge from experienced lawyers and converting it into structured AI instructions. Interests: The gap between AI's probabilistic nature and law's demands; designing AI systems that augment legal capabilities while maintaining professional control.

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I am a PhD candidate in Law at Bar-Ilan University under the supervision of Prof. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov (public law; legisprudence). My research examines timing rules in legislation, the normative role of quorum requirements in lawmaking, and an empirical study of private member bills. LL.B. and LL.M. (honors), Reichman University. Israel Bar member; internship in the Investment Dept., Israel Securities Authority. Junior fellow at the Institute for Israeli Thought (constitutional rigidity; regional electoral systems).

Elhanan Schwartz is a Ph.D student at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, supervised by Prof. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov and Prof. Roy Gelbard. His research explores how data science and AI can improve legislative quality. Alongside his academic work, he leads the Israeli Ministry of Justice's national legislation digitization program, converting statutes and regulations into machine readable formats and building advanced tools for digital legal representation. He holds an MBA and a BA from Bar-Ilan University.

Tamar Tavory is a PHD candidate in the law faculty in Bar Ilan University focusing on regulating artificial intelligence in health care. She works as a special counsel in Arnon, Tadmor-Levy law firm focusing on healthcare law, artificial intelligence, medical data, clinical trials and innovative medical technology. She received LLB (with honors) from Tel Aviv University, LLM (with honors) from The Judge Advocate General’s School, USA Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, and her M.A. in Literature (with thesis, with honors) from Tel Aviv University.

Nir Hakeyni is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Science and Applied Artificial Intelligence at Bar-Ilan University, under the supervision of Prof. Maayn Zhitomirsky-Geffet and Prof. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov. His research investigates judicial activism in the Israeli Supreme Court through extensive computational analysis of legal texts, employing large language models and knowledge graph techniques. Nir holds B.Sc. (magna cum laude) and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees in mathematics from Tel Aviv University.

Professor of law and director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan. Works on constitutional law and theory, courts, procedure, and adjudication, examining the democratic role of decentralized decisionmaking, including by use of game-based platforms for studying democratic behavior. LL.B., Hebrew University, LL.M. and S.J.D., Harvard. Held visiting positions at Berkeley and Harvard. Clerked for Israel Supreme Court president Aharon Barak and for 2d Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jon Newman.

Full Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. She is also a recurring Visiting Professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. She specializes in criminal law and procedure, with areas of expertise including criminal law theory, criminal justice reform, and alternatives to the formal criminal justice process, including online spaces and social media as mechanisms for pursuing informal justice in criminal conflicts.