פרופ' שלומית יניסקי רביד

Professor Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid

I. Publications, Chapters, Reports, and Related Scholarship

1. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Panayotis Agelarakis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the First Amendment and Emotional, Safety, and Privacy Risks: When the Game Plays You, Geo. Wash. J.L. & Tech. (forthcoming 2026)

2. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Nishtha Agrawal, Glitched Authorship: From Brainwaves to Copyright in the Age of Neurotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights )2026(

3. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Rethinking AI-Generated Invention and Patent Protection, in The Cambridge Book of Intellectual Property and Generative Artificial Intelligence in the EU (Enrico Bonadio, Peter Mezei & Eduardo Alonso eds., Cambridge University Press 2026-2027)

4. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Artificial Intelligence Systems: Historical Perspectives; and How Do Artificial Intelligence Systems Actually Work?, in Creating an Effective Artificial Intelligence Corporate Compliance (Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Caroe Basri, Alonzo Barber & Devika Kombacher, book authors, PLI Publishers, USA) (2026)

5. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Aviad Menashe, The Artificial Intelligence Trends, Developments, and Implications for Employment and Labor Policy Adoption of AI at Israel Workplaces, 

6. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Adam Guttentag, Facial Recognition Technology and Privacy, in Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Ryan Abbott & Elizabeth Rothman eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)

7. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Adam Guttentag, Facial Recognition Technology—From Theory to Practice, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Ryan Abbott & Elizabeth Rothman eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)

8. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Alec Goldstein, ‘The Artificial Project’ on AI and Patents—Three Worldwide Approches, in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Ryan Abbott & Elizabeth Rothman eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)

9. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Generating Rembrandt: Artificial Intelligence, Accountability and Copyright—The Human-Like Workers Are Already Here—A New Model, republished in 114 TMR Theme Issue on Artificial Intelligence (2024); originally published in 4 Mich. St. L. Rev. (2017) [Award-winning; selected by the Michigan State faculty panel and editorial board as the 2017 Visionary Article in Intellectual Property Law and also won an award.]

10. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Distributive Justice in the Digital Era: An International Perspective, in Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Francis Gurry, Peter Yu, Keun Lee & Daniel Benoliel eds., Cambridge University Press 2024)

11. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Jonathan Fenster, Decoding Davinci: A Novel Approach to Accountability and Liability for Medical Devices Operated Through Artificial Intelligence Based on AI Work Made for Hire Model, 35 Intell. Prop. J. 37–70 (2023)

12. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Kyle Fleming, Facial Recognition Tripartite Model: Bridging the Gap Between Privacy, Public Safety, Technology and the First and Fourth Amendments, 37 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 159–200 (2023)

13. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Steven W. Schlesinger, “HTTPS://”: The Right to Data Encryption, San Diego Law Journal (2023)

14. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Grace Monroy, The Promised Land: Blockchain and the Fashion Industry, 87 Brook. L. Rev. 609 (2022)

15. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Regina Jin, Summoning a New Artificial Intelligence Patent Model, Mich. St. L. Rev. (2022)

16. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Michal Shapira, The Digital ‘Glass-Earplug’: The Junction Among Artificial Intelligence, Multicultural in Streaming Services, Arabic Music and the Israeli Playlist, in New Technology and Intellectual Property (Lior Zemer, Dov Greenbaum & Aviv Gaon eds., Nevo 2022) [Hebrew; Srigim Li-On, Israel.]

17. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, The Beauty and the Beast: Computer Generated Works—When Artificial Intelligence Systems Create Art, in Celebrating Asimov Legacy (Andre Ramos Tavares ed., Etheria Editora 2021) [São Paulo.]

18. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Creative Industries and the Use of Blockchain and Smart Contracts, WIPO Publications (2021)

19. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Eduard Kim, Patenting Blockchain: Mitigating the Patent Infringement War, 83 Alb. L. Rev. 603 (2020)

20. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Making Physical and Virtual Sexual Harassment Illegitimate: The US #MeToo Movement and the Israeli Prevention Act, 34 A.B.A. J. Lab. & Emp. L., no. 2 (2020)

21. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Sean Hallisey, Equality and Privacy by Design: A New Model of Artificial Intelligence Data Transparency Certification as Safe Harbor, 46 Fordham Urb. L.J., no. 2, Special Edition on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (2019)

22. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Xiaoqiong (Jakie) Liu, When Artificial Intelligence Systems Produce Inventions: The 3A Era and an Alternative Model for Patent Law, Cardozo L. Rev. (2019)

23. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Cynthia Martens, From the Myth of Babel to Google Translate: Confronting Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence—Copyright and Algorithmic Biases in Online Translation Systems, Seattle Law Journal (2019)

24. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, ‘Naming, Blaming, Shaming and Amending’—What Can We Learn From the Israeli Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, Within Physical and Virtual Spheres, NYU Law Book, Labor and Employment Annual Conference (Feb. 12, 2019)

25. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Yuda Sommer Cohen & Micah Shapira, The Status of Arabic Music Among Israeli Jews: A Statistical Survey (2019–2020)

26. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Ben Zion Lahav, Public Interest vs. Private Lives—Affording Public Figures Privacy in the Digital Era: The Three Principles Filtering Model, 19 U. Pa. J. Const. L. (2017)

27. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Luis Antonio Velez-Hernandez, Copyrightability of Artworks Produced by Creative Robots, Driven by Artificial Intelligence Systems and the Concept of Originality: The Formality–Objective Model, 19 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. (2017)

28. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Kenneth S. Kwan, 3D Printing the Road Ahead: The Digitization of Products, When Public Safety Meets Intellectual Property Rights—A New Model, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. Available at:

29. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, The Hidden Though Flourishing Justification of Intellectual Property Laws: Distributive Justice; National Versus International Approaches, 21 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. (2017) [English; 47 pages; ranked #32 by W&L, General, General.] Available at:

30. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Special Consideration for Inventors: Lessons from the Academic Model, in Liber Amicorum Steve Adler 621–652 (Guy Davidov & Guy Mundlak eds., 2016) [Hebrew.]

31. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Pay Gap: Blaming the Victims—Are Women Responsible?!, in NYU Annual Conference on Labor, 67th ed., 91–116 (LexisNexis & Matthew Bender Press 2015) [English; 25 pages.] See also: file:///C:/Users/sravid/Downloads/Yanisky_Ravid_Pay_Gap_7_31_July_sent_stamped.pdf

32. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, To Read or Not to Read: Privacy Within Social Networks, The Entitlement of Employees to a Virtual Private Zone and the Balloon Theory, 64 Am. U. L. Rev. 53–107 (2014) [Judged one of the best law review articles related to entertainment, publishing and/or the arts in 2014 by Thomson Reuters (West) Publishers; reprinted in a special edition of Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts (West 2015).]

33. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, To Read or Not go Read: Privacy Within Social Networks, The Entitlement of Employees to a Virtual Private Zone and the Balloon Theory, in Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts 129–186 (Thomson Reuters (West) 2015) [English; book of the best articles published in the U.S. in the field, judged by West; source labels this item “11A.”]

34. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Amy Mittelman, Gender Biases in Cyberspace: A Two-Stage Model, The New Arena of Wikipedia and Other Websites, Fordham IPLJ (2015) [English; 45 pages; ranked #2 by W&L, Arts, Entertainment and Sports, Printed Journals.]

35. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Rethinking Employees’ Moral Rights (Droit Moral): A New Model, in Intellectual Property: Interdisciplinary Perspective 463–505 (Miriam Bitton & Lior Zemer eds., 2015) [Hebrew.]

36. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Margot Kaminsky, The Marrakesh Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons: Why a Treaty Was Preferable to Soft Law?, 75 Pitt. L. Rev. 255–300 (2014)

37. Michael Factor, Patents and Prejudice: IP and Innovation at Work, Book Review of Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Intellectual Property at the Workplace: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, 9 J. Intell. Prop. L. & Prac. 944 (2014) [Book review of Yanisky-Ravid’s book.]

38. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Rethinking Innovation and Productivity Within the Workplace Amidst Uncertainty, 24 Fordham IPLJ 139–197 (2013

39. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, ‘For a Mess of Pottage’: Incentivizing Creative Employees, 43 Cornell HR Rev. 1–11 (2013) [English.]

40. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, The Wolf and the Lamb: Psychological Relationships in the Workplace, in Elisheva Barak–Ososkin Book 233–281 (2012) [Hebrew.]

41. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, A New Look at Employer-Employee Relationships Through the Lens of the Patents and Creations ‘of’ Employees, 12 Labor, Society and Law 381–434 (2010) [Hebrew.]

42. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Exclusion of Women at the Intersection of Patents as a Property Right, the Workplace and Feminist Discourse, in Law, Gender and Feminism in Israel 357–412 (Daphne Barak-Erez, Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Yifat Bitton & Dana Pugach eds., Nevo Publishing & Ono Academic College 2007) [Hebrew.]

43. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Consideration in Labor Law and the Rawlsian Theory of Justice—Implications for Industrial Relations, Kiryat Hamishpat 4 (2005) [Hebrew.]

44. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Social and Legal Justifications for the Existence of an Independent Labor Court, in Labor Court at the Crossroads (Ozer Carmi & Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid eds., Ono Academic College Press 2003) [Hebrew; proceedings from a seminar on the subject.]

45. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Eligible Patent Matter—Gender Analysis of Patent Law: International and Comparative Perspectives, 19 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 851–880 (2011)

II. Books and Edited Volumes

46. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Caroe Basri, Alonzo Barber & Devika Kombacher, Book co-authors, PLI (forthcoming 2026)

47. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Intellectual Property at Workplaces: Theoretical and International Perspectives (2013) [Book; Hebrew with English synopsis. Peer review of the book was published in the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.]

48. Daphne Barak-Erez, Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Yifat Bitton & Dana Pugach eds., Law, Gender and Feminism (Nevo Publisher 2007) [Edited volume; Hebrew; 24 articles; 1,010 pages; peer review judgment.]

49. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Social and Legal Justifications for the Existence of an Independent Labor Court, in Labor Court at the Crossroads (Ozer Carmi & Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid eds., Ono Academic College Press 2003) [Proceedings from a seminar on the subject; Hebrew.]

50. Michael Factor, Patents and Prejudice: IP and Innovation at Work, Book Review of Intellectual Property at the Workplace: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives by Dr. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, 9 J. Intell. Prop. L. & Prac. 944 (2014) [Peer review of the book.]

III. Amicus Briefs on Artificial Intelligence Policy

51. Brief of Legal Professors Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, in a project in which Professor Yanisky-Ravid guided legal writing of students of the Penn State Dickinson Law IP Clinic, in collaboration with Jonathan Marcelinus D’Silva, Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law), Christopher Mason (Cornell University), and disabled veteran Elisa Shupe, as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant and Urging Reversal, Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, in her official capacity as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office; U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on AI and copyright policy; appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:22-cv-01564 (Hon. Beryl A. Howell)

52. Brief of Legal Professors Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Ge Chen, Adam Guttentag, Lawrence Lessig, and Christopher Mason, and disabled veteran Elisa Shupe, as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellant and Urging Reversal, Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, in her official capacity as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office; U.S. Copyright Office, amicus brief on AI and copyright law; on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:22-cv-01564 (Hon. Beryl A. Howell)

53. Brief of Amici Curiae Prof. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid with Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University, Prof. Christopher Mason, Cornell University, and Osman Güçlütürk, Yale Law ISP, in Support of Petitioner, Stephen Thaler, Petitioner v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al., U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on AI and patent law, on petition for a writ of certiorari (Apr. 12, 2023)