Ya'ara Mordecai

Ya’ara Mordecai is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School and a former attorney in the International Law Department of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. She previously clerked for the Deputy Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and has worked with the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights, and Doughty Street Chambers. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, international criminal law, empirical legal studies, and international human rights law, with forthcoming and published work in leading law journals. Her experience also includes clinical and project-based work in international human rights and minorities’ rights at Yale Law School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has served as a Lloyd Cutler International Law Fellow and a Kirby Simon Human Rights Fellow, and has coached student teams for the Jean-Pictet Competition. She earned her LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2023 as an E. David Fischman Scholar, and also holds an LL.M. in public and international law, an LL.B., and a B.A. in the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude).