Niva Elkin-Koren is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, the academic director of the Chief Justice Meir Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation, and a member of the Academic Management Committee of TAU Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.
Her research lies at the intersection between law and information technology, with a focus on both the governance of AI and the governance by AI. She examines how large language models challenge existing legal frameworks—for example, in regulating personalized pricing, governing access to data, or allocating copyright in generative AI. She also studies how AI tools interact with social institutions, legal procedures, and fundamental rights, addressing issues such as explainability, transparency, accountability of generative platforms, and the role of foundation models in shaping legal interpretation.
Elkin-Koren holds LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University, LL.M. from Harvard Law School and JSD from Stanford Law School. Before joining Tel-Aviv University, she served as the Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Haifa, and was the founding director of the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP) and of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT).
