Dr. Sharon Yadin

Law and Regulation, Public Law,

Administrative Law, Regulation & Media

Dr. Sharon Yadin is a research fellow at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, specializing in law and regulation. She has published two books and over 25 articles in prominent journals in Israel and abroad, mostly in the U.S. Her work is frequently cited by the Israeli Supreme Court and her thesis on regulatory contract doctrine was accepted into Israeli law in a precedential ruling on the natural gas regulation. Dr. Yadin earned her doctorate degree in law from Tel-Aviv University, and her post-doctorate from The Hebrew University. Her current research focuses on soft regulatory strategies employed by administrative agencies, such as contractual regulation and regulation by shaming. She has also worked on projects that aim to shed light on the digital aspects of the administrative state.

Dr. Yadin 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 public representative at the Israel Press Council and is currently serving as council member at the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. She also serves as public committee member at Maala (a non-profit promoting corporate social responsibility) and as board director at the Israeli Law and Society Association. She advises governmental regulators, as well as multinational firms.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Manipulating Disclosure: Creative Compliance in the Israeli Food Industry, 66 Saint Louis University Law Journal (forthcoming 2021)

Regulatory Eco-Shaming, in The Legal Aspects of Shaming: An Ancient Sanction in the Modern World (Guy Seidman et al. eds., forthcoming in Edward Elgar) – Please Email me for a PDF copy

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)

Featured in Legal Theory Blog and Yale’s Notice & Comment blog
Selected for Administrative Law SSRN Reading List

Saving Lives Through Shaming, 9 Harvard Business Law Review Online 57 (2019)

Featured in Globes

Regulatory Shaming, 49 Environmental Law 407 (2019)

Featured in The Regulatory Review, Regulation Digest and Yale’s Comparative Administrative Law Blog
Recommended by the Legal Theory Blog

Shaming Big Pharma, 36 Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 131 (2019)

SSRN editors’ choice for Weekend Reads
Selected for Administrative Law SSRN Reading List

Regulation and the Separation of Powers, 28 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 357 (2019) (with Ariel Bendor)

Featured in Legal Theory Blog

Regulatory Literacy: Rethinking Television Rating in the New Media Age, 88 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 101 (2019) (with Tali Teeni Harari)

Featured in Media Law Prof Blog

Too Small to Fail: State Bailouts and Capture by Industry Underdogs, 43 Capital University Law Review 889 (2015)

BOOKS

New Regulation: A Revolution in Public Law (Hebrew, 2018)

Cited by the Supreme Court of Israel, 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