עברית

Dr. Ori Sharon

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03-5317074
Email
ori.sharon@biu.ac.il
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בניין 305 חדר 113
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.

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Research

Environmental law, climate law, environmental policy, property law, and international environmental law.

Publications

ARTICLES

אורי שרון, מצב חירום אקלימי: הבטחה נכזבת, עיוני משפט מו  590-529(2024)

פיתוח מדד פגיעוּת אקלים לאומי להערכת מאפייני הרגישות המגוונים של קהילות, תשתיות ואזורים, אקולוגיה וסביבה, גיליון סתיו 2024  כרך 15(3)

דניאל שטאובר ואח', זִכְרוּ רִאשֹׁנוֹת מֵעוֹלָם: תובנות מחקיקה אקלימית-עולמית לקראת חוק אקלים ישראלי, אקולוגיה וסביבה, נובמבר 2022

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)

Roni Bar & Ori Sharon, Sustainable Urbanism and Climate Adaptation (Hebrew) 10(3) Ecology & Environment 84 (2019)

Fields of Dreams: An Economic Democracy Framework for Addressing Nimbyism 49(3) Environmental Law Reporter 10264 (2019)

Tides of Climate Change: Protecting the Natural Wealth Rights of Disappearing States 60(1) Harvard International Law Journal 95 (2019)

Ori Sharon et al., Ecosystem Services and Judge-Made Law: A Review of Legal Cases in Common Law Countries 32 Ecosystem Services 9 (2018)

Steven L. Schwarcz & Ori Sharon, The Bankruptcy-Law Safe Harbor for Derivatives: A Path-Dependence Analysis, 71 Washington & Lee Law Review 1715 (2014)

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

The Limits of Emergency Declarations: Navigating Democratic Governance in the Climate Crisis, in Institutions for Effective Climate Action (Texas University Press) forthcoming 2025

Disappearing States: State Extinction through Climate Change, Alexander Zaher & Benoit Mayer (Eds.), Debating Climate Law 349 (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Non-Territorial EEZs: Future Rights of Small-Island States in Paul Harris (Ed.) Climate Change and Ocean Governance: Politics and Policy for Threatened Seas 290 (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Steven L. Schwarcz & Ori Sharon, Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Shadow Banking Within and Across National Borders (World Scientific, 2015)

 

REPORTS

Ori Sharon et al., Barriers for Pro-Environmental Behavior and Effectiveness of Behavioral Interventions, Israel Democracy Institute (2024) (Hebrew)

Ben Belek et al., Developing a Climate Vulnerability Index- Expert Opinion. Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Hebrew) (2024)

Ori Sharon et al., Barriers for Pro-Environmental Behavior and Effectiveness of Behavioral Interventions, Israel Democracy Institute (forthcoming 2024) (Hebrew)

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 (with Professor Nathan Sussman) (Yad Hanadiv grant) Israel Democracy Institute (2020) (Hebrew)

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 : 05/03/2025