Dr. Sivan Shlomo-Agon
Short Biography
Dr. Sivan Shlomo has been a faculty member at Bar-Ilan Law School since 2015. She holds a PhD in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLM from Northwestern University, and an LLM and LLB from Tel Aviv University. Her research and teaching focus on public international law, international economic law, international courts and dispute settlement, international organizations, global governance, international legal theory, and empirical legal studies.
Dr. Shlomo Agon was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law at New York University. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a Visiting Professor at various universities, including the Technical University of Munich, University of Graz, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and Oslo University.
Dr. Shlomo Agon has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Research, the Heshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law, ICON-S-IL Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, the Fulbright Alumni Prize, the Jean Monnet Scholarship, and the Sarah Wolf Foundation Award. Her scholarly publications appear in top-tier journals such as the American Journal of International Law, University of Toronto Law Journal, University of California Law Journal, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, World Trade Review, and the Journal of World Trade. She is the author of International Adjudication on Trial: The Effectiveness of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Research Interests and Teaching
International economic law, international trade, international courts, dispute settlement, global governance, and empirical legal studies.
Publications
Books
- International Adjudication on Trial: The Effectiveness of the WTO Dispute Settlement System, Oxford University Press, International Economic Law Series, November 2019 (368 pages)
Articles
- Just About Time: International Law’s Temporalities and Our Moment in History, 118 American Journal of International Law 751 (2024) (with Michal Saliternik).
- Fragmentation in Global Climate Governance: What Lessons from COVID-19, 57 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 993 (2024).
- Proactive International Law, 75 University of California Law Journal 661 (2024) (with Michal Saliternik)
- Technological Development and the Time Horizons of International Law, 117 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 161 (2024) (with Michal Saliternik)
- React or Proact? The Course and Pattern of Legal Change in International Law, 117 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 248 (2024) (with Michal Saliternik)
- The Climate Crisis in the International Legal Order: The Missing Link, Bar Ilan University Law Review (forthcoming 2024)
- Farewell to the F-Word? Fragmentation of International Law in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 72 University of Toronto Law Journal 1 (2022)
- Lead article of the issue
- Recipient of the ICON-S-IL Prize for the Best Paper by a Young Scholar
- Sustaining Multilateralism from the Bench, 38 Berkeley Journal of International Law 65 (2020)
- The Law of Strangers: The Form and Substance of Other-Regarding International Adjudication, 68 University of Toronto Law Journal 598 (2018) (with Eyal Benvenisti)
- Is Compliance the Name of the Effectiveness Game? Goal-Shifting and the Real-Life Dynamics of Judicial Effectiveness at the WTO, 15 World Trade Review 671 (2016)
- Noncompliance, Renegotiation and Justice in International Adjudication: A WTO Perspective, 5 Global Constitutionalism 238 (2016)
- Clearing the Smoke: The Legitimation of Judicial Power at the WTO, 49 Journal of World Trade 539 (2015)
- Lead article of the issue
- Is it All about Compliance: Towards a Multidimensional Goal-Based Approach for Analyzing the Effectiveness of the WTO DSS, 108 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2015)
Book Chapters
- WTO Dispute Settlement 1.0 and the Intricate Cycle of Governance, in Reckoning and Renewal: The World Trade Organization and Its Dispute Settlement System (Nicoals Lamp ed., forthcoming 2025)
- The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, in International Law (Yael Ronen ed., 4th ed. 2023)
- Going Public: Reasoning and Justification in the WTO Courtroom, in Public Reason and Courts (Silje Aambø Langvatn, Mattias Kumm & Wojciech Sadurski eds., Cambridge University Press, 2020).
- The WTO Dispute Settlement System, in Yuval Shany, Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts: A Goal-Based Approach 189 (Oxford University Press, 2014) (with Yuval Shany)
Last Updated Date : 15/12/2024