Dr. Sharon Yadin
Law and Regulation
Administrative Law
Climate Policy
Law and Communication
Dr. Sharon Yadin is a Senior Lecturer of Law and Regulation at the Yezreel Valley College School of Public Administration and Public Policy and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions. She is an Associate Editor at Springer Nature’s Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Journal. Dr. Yadin has published some 30 articles in prominent journals in Israel and the United States, including Harvard Journal on Legislation, Environmental Law, Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin, and Harvard Business Law Review Online, as well as three books. Her latest book, Fighting Climate Change Through Shaming, was published by Cambridge University Press. She edited or is currently editing book chapters in leading publications and special volumes at prominent law reviews. Dr. Yadin’s research focuses on the soft regulatory approaches of government agencies. 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 and academic awards, including 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 research grants and teaching awards. She has served as a public representative at the Israel Press Council and the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. She 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. She is also a member of the Climate Social Science Network at Brown University. Dr. Yadin advises governmental regulators as well as multinational firms.
Fighting Climate Change Through Shaming
This Book contends that regulators can and should shame companies into climate-responsible behavior by publicizing information on corporate contribution to climate change. Drawing on theories of regulatory shaming and environmental disclosure, the book introduces a “regulatory climate shaming” framework, which utilizes corporate reputational sensitivities and the willingness of stakeholders to hold firms accountable for their actions in the context of the climate crisis. The book explores the developing landscape of climate shaming practices employed by governmental regulators in various jurisdictions via rankings, ratings, labeling, company reporting, lists, online databases, and other forms of information-sharing regarding corporate climate performance and compliance. Against the backdrop of insufficient climate law and regulation worldwide, the book offers a rich normative and descriptive theory and viable policy directions for regulatory climate shaming, considering the promises and pitfalls of this nascent approach and insights gained from implementing regulatory shaming in other fields. It is a part of the Cambridge Elements Series – short, peer-reviewed books that aim to provide readers with original, cutting-edge insights into frontier topics. Online supplements are available on the Cambridge website.
Cambridge University Press Video Abstract
Review in Yale Climate Connections
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- Featured in Yale’s Law School Notice & Comment Blog
- Featured in Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog
- Featured in the Duke Financial Economics Center FinReg Blog
- Featured in Brown University Climate Social Science Network
Soft Regulation Approaches to Climate Policy, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Climate Policy (Daniel Fiorino et al. eds., forthcoming 2024)
Government Regulation by Eco-Shaming Corporations: Balancing Effectiveness and Fairness, in The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World 225 (Meital Pinto & Guy Seidman eds., 2023)
- Featured in HealthLawProf Blog
Israel’s Law and Regulation After the Gas Discoveries, in Regulation in Israel: Values, Effectiveness, Methods (Eyal Tevet & Itzhak Galnoor eds., 2021) – Please Email me for a PDF copy.
E-Regulation, 38 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 101 (2020)
- The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy (finalist)
- Featured in Legal Theory Blog and Yale’s Notice & Comment blog
Saving Lives Through Shaming, 9 Harvard Business Law Review Online 57 (2019)
Regulatory Shaming, 49 Environmental Law 407 (2019)
- Featured in The Regulatory Review
- Featured in the Regulation Digest and Yale’s Comparative Administrative Law Blog
- Recommended by the Legal Theory Blog
- Cited in over 25 scholarly publications and policy reports
Shaming Big Pharma, 36 Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 131 (2019)
- SSRN editors’ choice for Weekend Reads
- Featured in Yale’s Notice & Comment blog
- Featured in Legal Theory Blog
- Featured in Media Law Prof Blog
NON-ENGLISH BOOKS
New Regulation: A Revolution in Public Law (Hebrew, 2018)
- Cited by the Supreme Court of Israel in prominent regulatory law rulings, including in Seligman v. The Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd. (Israel’s Chevron/Auer)
Regulation: Administrative Law in the Age of Regulatory Contracts (Hebrew, 2016)
- Cited by the Supreme Court of Israel in prominent regulatory law rulings
- Book thesis on regulatory contracts was adopted by the Supreme Court of Israel in a landmark ruling on natural gas regulation
MEDIA
Regulatory Eco-Shaming – The European Environmental Law Forum annual conference – video presentation
E-Regulation – Netherlands Institute of Governance conference – video presentation
Regulatory Shaming – Ipse Dixit podcast
BLOG POSTS
Should Regulators Shame Companies into Compliance? – The Regulatory Review
Shaming Big Pharma – Notice & Comment, a blog by Yale Journal on Regulation
COURSES
Administrative Law | Law and Regulation | Legislation and Regulation | Regulation Policy | Regulatory Contracts | Introduction to Regulation | Administrative and Constitutional Law | Media Law, Ethics and Regulation | Administrative Law and the Information Revolution | Corporate Law | Legal Writing | Climate Policy | Energy and Environmental Policy
SELECTED HEBREW ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: The Murder of Tair Rada and the Roman Zadorov Case – Institution, Justice, Citizens, and Social Media (Azi Lev-on, Yediot Books, 2023), Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication (2023)
The Democratic Paradox of Coronavirus Regulations, 24 Law and Government in Israel (Mishpat Umimshal, University of Haifa) 31 (2022)
The Expressive Space of Regulation: Should the Government Engage in Shaming?, 23 Law & Business (IDC Law Review) 577 (2020)
Interpreting the Regulatory Contract Following Zeligman, 44 Tel Aviv University Law Review Forum 1 (2020)
A Present Need: Public Participation in Consent Decrees, 25 Hamishpat Law Review (The College of Management) 151 (2020)
“Shark,”” Alligator” and “Whale”: Representations by Administrative Authorities, Regulatory Contracts and Other Creatures in the Natural Gas Deal, 32 Bar-Ilan Law Studies 213 (2019)
The High Court of Justice Decision on the Natural Gas Deal and the Regulatory Contract: A Paradigm Shift in Administration and Public Law, 19 Law and Government in Israel (Mishpat Umimshal, University of Haifa) 565 (2018)
Regulating Television: The Enforcement Policy of the Second Authority, in Regulation in Israel: Values, Effectiveness, Methods 320 (Eyal Tevet & Itzhak Galnoor eds., 2019)
The Quiet Regulation: Informal Enforcement Arrangements of the Israeli Securities Authority and the Apex-Psagot Case, in Regulating Regulation: Law and Policy 169 (Yishai Blank et al. eds., 2016)
Miscommunication: Between Public Interest and Private Interest in the Regulation of Channel 10, 8 Haifa Law Review (Din Udvarim) 391 (2015)
The Regulation-Education Web: Television Rating Systems in the New Media Environment, 13 Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication 20 (2014) (with Tali Teeni-Harari)
What is Regulation? A Definition Proposal Following the First Uses of the Term in Israeli Legislation, 6 Laws in Brief (The Hebrew University) 1 (2014)
Regulatory Contracts in Israeli Financial Markets, 35 Tel Aviv University Law Review 447 (2012)
Self-Regulation in the Israeli Banking Sector, 19 Banking Quarterly 168 (2010)