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Ady Schonmann-Bethlehem is a Visiting Professor at King's College London's Dickson Poon School of Law and the Department of War Studies. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute (TLI) and Affiliated Faculty in the School of Security Studies. Based in London, she specializes in international law, with a focus on UN legal frameworks, human rights, and transnational governance. Her consultancy work with Legal Policy International Ltd (LPI) addresses high-stakes legal policy matters. She teaches graduate modules on UN collective security and transnational constitutionalism, and previously convened a Visiting Speaker Series on legal challenges in a transnational world.
Before joining King's College, she served as Israel's Legal Adviser to the UN Mission in New York (2009–2014), representing Israel in UN Security Council, General Assembly, and Sixth Committee engagements. Earlier, she was Deputy Head of the International Law Department at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, advising on human rights, humanitarian law, and Middle East peace process negotiations. Her research explores UN procedural law, semantics in international law, and cyber governance under international frameworks.
She has lectured widely on topics such as Responsibility to Protect (R2P), UN human rights mechanisms, and Israel’s UN relations. Her academic affiliations include Columbia University Law School, where she taught a graduate course on UN legal theory and practice. Her work bridges legal scholarship with practical policy challenges in transnational contexts.
