Ron Shapira

Ron A. Shapira is an Israeli lawyer and professor of law. He is the rector of the Peres Academic Center. In July 2024, Shapira was chosen to represent Israel as an ad-hoc judge in the International Court of Justice.

Between 1994 and 2000, Shapira was a senior lecturer in Tel-Aviv University as well as a visiting lecturer in Columbia University and the Cardozo Law School. In 2001, Shapira became a professor of law in Bar-Ilan University and served as the dean of the law school between 2001 and 2004. In 2008 he left Bar-Ilan to become the president of Peres Academic Center.

Between 2006 and 2014, Shapira served as a member of the Israeli public defender's committee.

Work Shapira's areas of specialty are procedural law, evidence law, criminal law and mathematical formulae in legal doctrine. Since 1999, Shapira is an editorial board member of the journal "Law, Probability and Risk". and a supporter of key elements of the proposed 2023 Israeli judicial reform.

Select publications Shapira, R. A. (1994). The Probabilistic Model of the Law of Evidence: Part One-Traditional Criticism. Tel Aviv UL Rev., 19, 205. Shapira, R. A. (1996). The Probabilistic Model of the Law on Evidence: Part Two-The Epistemic Logic. Tel Aviv UL Rev., 20, 141. Shapira, R. A. (1997). The susceptibility of formal models of evidentiary inference to cultural sensitivity. Cardozo J. Int'l & Comp. L., 5, 165. Shapira, R. A. (1997). Economic Analysis of the Law of Evidence: A Caveat. Cardozo L. Rev., 19, 1607. D Barak-Erez, R Shapira, The delusion of symmetric rights, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 19, Issue 2, SUMMER, Pages 297–312 Shapira, R.A. Fuzzy measurement in the Mishnah and the Talmud. Artificial Intelligence and Law 7, 273–288 (1999) Shapira, R.A. (2002). Fuzzy Logic and Its Application to Legal Reasoning — A Comment to Professor Zadeh. In: MacCrimmon, M., Tillers, P. (eds) The Dynamics of Judicial Proof. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 94. Physica, Heidelberg Sagi A, Shapira R. Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection. Israel Law Review. 2002;36(3):181-217 Shapira-Ettinger, Keren and Shapira, Ron A.. "The Constructive Value of Overconfidence" Review of Law & Economics, vol. 4, no. 3, 2008, pp. 751-778 Shapira R. Disciplinary Measures against Minors as Justification in Criminal Law. Israel Law Review. 2014;30(1-2):161-170.