Miri Sharon is a Ph.D. candidate at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies in the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, supervised by Prof. Yoav Sapir and Dr. Natalie R. Davidson.
Miri obtained her LLB in Law & International Relations from the Hebrew university in Jerusalem, and her LLM in Public International Law (cum laude) from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her LLM thesis, supervised by Ms. Patricia Viseur Sellers and Prof. John Dugard, was titled “the Foca Judgment and the Definition of Rape in International Criminal Law – should consent be an element of the crime?” (2001).
After completing her LLM studies, she joined the Department for International Agreements and International Litigation in the Ministry of Justice of Israel. In 2006 she joined the United Nations Secretariat after successfully passing the national competitive recruitment exams (2003 NCRE/YPP). She worked for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna on the implementation of the Transnational Organized Crime and International Drug Conventions; and on the development and implementation of standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, applying human rights in the criminal justice system. In 2016 she started working as an independent expert and drafted several publications for the United Nations and one for the EU; conducted legal assessments, programme development and project evaluations.
