Michael Karayanni

Michael (Mousa) Karayanni (, ; born 1964) is an Arab-Israeli professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law.

Biography He was educated at Bar-Ilan University (LL.B 1990); George Washington University National Law Center (LL.M 1994); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (LL.D, summa cum laude, 2000), University of Pennsylvania (S.J.D., 2003). His doctoral supervisors were Celia Wasserstein Fassberg (at Hebrew University) and Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. (at Penn).

Karayanni was the Academic Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights (2004-2006); Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law (2006-2008) and the Director of the Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law (2008 – 2012). Institut de Droit International (elected 2021); International Academy of Comparative Law.

Among his extra-curriculum activities were a memberships on the following boards: Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo; Member, International YMCA, Jerusalem; ACRI, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (2004-2006); School of Peace, Neve Shalom – Wahat Al Salam (2004-2006).

In 2002 Karayanni won the Tseltenr Award for a Young Scholars In 2007 he won the Michael Bruno Memorial Award and in 2021 he won the Tseltner Award for an established scholars

Karayanni's research interest are private international law (conflict of Laws); civil procedure, multiculturalism.