Prof. Yaël Ronen is Professor of public international law at the Academic Center for Science and Law in Israel. She is also a research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; and academic editor of the Israel Law Review, published by and Cambridge University Press. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, following an LLB and LLM from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prof. Ronen's areas of interest include issues of statehood and territorial status, particularly as they intersect with questions of human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law. Her latest publications include The Occupation of Justice (OUP 2021, 2nd edn) with David Kretzmer, and ‘Palestine in the ICC: Statehood and the Right to Self-determination in the Absence of Effective Control', (2020) 18 JICJ 947.