Sharon Hannes

Sharon Hannes

  • Scholar in Residence
Education

S.J.D., Harvard Law School, 2001
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1999
LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1997
B.A., Tel Aviv University, 1997

Areas of Specialty

Corporate Law Policy and Corporate Finance
Managers Remuneration and Incentive Pay
Corporate Control Contests
Securities Regulation
Law & Economics

Sharon Hannes is a Professor of Law and the previous Dean of the Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law (2017-2022). He also previously served as the Academic Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, and the Editor in Chief of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law. During 2004-2014 he was the Academic Director of the Tel-Aviv-Berkeley Executive LL.M. Program in Commercial Law, a joint program of Tel-Aviv University and U.C. Berkeley.

Professor Hannes was a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law (Fall of 2003, and 2008-2009), Columbia Law School (Fall of 2011 and 2016), Georgetown University (Fall 2014) and Cornell Law School (Fall 2023).

Professor Hannes received his S.J.D. in Corporate and Financial Law from Harvard Law School, where he received the Byse Fellowship (2001). He completed his LL.M. in Corporate Law at NYU School of Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. 

Prof. Hannes is a TAU alumnus. In 1997 he received his LL.B. degree in Law and a B.A. degree in Accounting.