Ruth Lapidoth is Greenblatt Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Born in Germany and immigrating to Palestine in 1938, she studied law at the Hebrew University and later pursued advanced legal studies in Paris. From 1956 to 2001 she taught at Hebrew University, becoming full professor in 1980. She specialized in international law, minority rights, autonomy, Jerusalem, the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the law of the sea. Beyond academia, she served as Legal Advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, participated in international negotiations, and was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In recognition of her scholarship and public service, Lapidoth received the Israel Prize in Legal Research.

Selected works:

• Autonomy: Flexible Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts (USIP Press, 1997)
• Israel and the Palestinians: Some Legal Issues (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2003)
• Jerusalem: Some Legal Issues (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 2011)