Shani is a doctoral candidate in the direct course of studies toward a Ph.D. in Law at the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Shani's main fields of research are legal history, public law and criminal law. Her dissertation, supervised by Prof. Assaf Likhovski and Prof. Yoram Shachar, is centered primarily on the 'unsung heroes' of Israeli law during its formative period.
Shani earned her LL.B. (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. She had previously obtained a B.A. (magna cum laude) in East Asian Studies from Tel Aviv University and an M.A. (magna cum laude) in Legal Studies for Non-Jurists from Bar-Ilan University. Following her LL.B. studies, Shani completed a one-year legal internship at the Israeli Ministry of Justice (Office of Legal Counsel and Legislative Affairs).
Shani currently teaches courses at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and Reichman University Law School. From 2020-2023 she was a member of ICON-S-IL Blog's editorial board, first as editor and subsequently as executive editor and blog manager.