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Senior Lecturer of Law & Regulation
Dr. Sharon Yadin is a Senior Lecturer of Law and Regulation at the Yezreel Valley College School of Public Administration and Public Policy. She is an Associate Editor at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (a Nature Portfolio journal), a Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) scholar at Brown University, and an appointed member of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).
Dr. Yadin has authored dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters, including published and forthcoming work in the Harvard Journal on Legislation and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. She has also authored three books, most recently Fighting Climate Change Through Shaming, published by Cambridge University Press. She has edited or is currently editing book chapters for leading publishers, including Oxford University Press, as well as special issues of prominent law reviews. Additionally, she has participated in prestigious international research initiatives and collaborations.
She regularly serves as a peer reviewer for leading international journals, academic publishers, research foundations, and scholarly conferences in the fields of law, regulation, and public policy, including Cambridge University Press, Nature Portfolio, and Oxford University Press.
Dr. Yadin’s research focuses on law and regulatory theory, with particular emphasis on regulatory approaches and rule design, such as agreement-based regulation and regulation by shaming. Her work also addresses corporate obstruction in regulatory contexts, administrative law, legislation and regulation, and regulatory disclosure and transparency.
Her work on regulatory contracts was adopted into law in MQG v. Prime Minister of Israel, a precedential Supreme Court of Israel ruling in which her book, Regulation: Administrative Law in the Age of Regulatory Contracts, was cited more than a dozen times. Her studies on regulatory shaming were cited in leading publications in the field, presented in prominent international fora, and have influenced policy in Israel and abroad.
Dr. Yadin earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University and completed her post-doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has won several scholarships, research grants, and academic awards, including a grant from CSSN at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (Brown University), the Gorney Award for Young Public Law Scholars, the Lakers Prize for Best Media Regulation Paper, the Lady Davis post-doctoral scholarship, and the Zvi Meitar doctoral scholarship. She has also received various teaching awards.
She has served as a public representative at the Israel Press Council and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. She currently serves as a public committee member at Maala (an NGO promoting corporate social responsibility) and as a board director at the Israeli Law and Society Association. Dr. Yadin, an attorney-at-law, advises governmental regulators as well as multinational firms.