Dr. Sharon Yadin is a Senior Lecturer of Law and Regulation at the Yezreel Valley College School of Public Administration and Public Policy and a research fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa. She is an Associate Editor at Springer Nature’s Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Journal and a Climate Social Science Network scholar at Brown University. Dr. Yadin has authored 30 articles and book chapters, including publications in the Harvard Journal on Legislation, Environmental Law, Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin, and Harvard Business Law Review Online. Additionally, she has written three books. Her latest book, Fighting Climate Change Through Shaming, was published by Cambridge University Press. She has edited or is currently editing book chapters in leading publications and special law review volumes.

Dr. Yadin’s research focuses on government agencies’ soft regulatory approaches, including regulatory shaming, regulatory contracts, e-regulation, and crowdsourced regulation; regulatory transparency; and corporate disinformation and obstruction in regulatory contexts. Her work on regulatory contracts was adopted into law in MQG v. Prime Minister of Israel.

Dr. Yadin earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University and completed her post-doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.