Dr. Ori Sharon
Short Biography
Dr. Ori Sharon is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Environmental Regulation Program at Bar-Ilan University. He holds an LL.B. and LL.M. (magna cum laude) in commercial law from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, an LL.M. (cum laude) in environmental law and an SJD, both from Duke University School of law. Ori researches and teaches environmental law, climate law, environmental policy, property law, and international environmental law.
Ori served as a Mimshak Fellow Scientific Adviser to Dalit Zilber, Managing Director of the Planning Administration at the Department of Finance, as a Graduate Researcher at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and as an Adam Smith Fellow at George Mason University Mercatus Center. He also worked as an Associate at leading legal and policy organizations in the private and NGO sectors, including IronOak Energy Capital, Earthjustice, and the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Research Interests and Teaching
Environmental law, climate law, environmental policy, property law, and international environmental law.
Publications
ARTICLES
Climate Emergency Law: A False Promise (Hebrew), 46 Tel-Aviv University Law Review (2023) (Hebrew)
Less Than Enough: Comparative Insights from Greenhouse Gasses Emissions Mitigation Frameworks Towards an Israeli Climate Law, 13(3) Ecology & Environment (2022) (Hebrew) (with Daniel Shtauber et al.)
To Be or Not To Be: State Extinction Through Climate Change, 51 Environmental Law 1041 (2021)
Finding Eden in a Cost Benefit State, 27(2) George Mason Law Review 571 (2020)
Sustainable Urbanism and Climate Adaptation 10(3) Ecology & Environment 84 (2019) (Hebrew) (with Roni Bar)
Fields of Dreams: An Economic Democracy Framework for Addressing Nimbyism 49(3) Environmental Law Reporter 10264 (2019)
Ecosystem Services and Judge-Made Law: A Review of Legal Cases in Common Law Countries 32 Ecosystem Services 9 (2018) (with Lydia Olander et al.)
The Bankruptcy-Law Safe Harbor for Derivatives: A Path-Dependence Analysis, 71 Washington & Lee Law Review 1715 (2014) (with Steven L. Schwarcz)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Disappearing States: State Extinction through Climate Change, in Debating Climate Law 349 (Alexander Zaher & Benoit Mayer eds., Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Non-Territorial EEZs: Future Rights of Small-Island States, in Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas 290 (Paul Harris ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Derivatives and Bankruptcy, in Shadow Banking Within and Across National Borders (World Scientific, 2015) (with Steven L. Schwarcz).
REPORTS
Ben Belek et al., Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index- Expert Opinion. Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Hebrew) (2024)
Ofira Ayalon et al., Fundamental Elements in Designing Climate Law, and Recommendations for Implementation in Israeli Legislation, Samuel Neaman Institute (2022) (Hebrew)
Ben Belek et al., EAPC-Red-Med Agreement: Mapping the Risks and Policy Recommendations - Expert Opinion. Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Hebrew) (2021)
Israel Green Recovery Plan (Yad Hanadiv grant) Israel Democracy Institute (2020) (Hebrew) (with Professor Nathan Sussman)
Lydia Olander et al., Compensatory Mitigation on Federal Lands (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Environmental Markets grant) Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Report NI R 20-02 (2020)
Last Updated Date : 29/08/2024
