Publications

Forthcoming

2026

Renana Keydar, Encyclopedia Entry: “Law and Data”, to be included in The Hebrew Encyclopedia (new edition) (forthcoming 2026) (in Hebrew).

2025

Renana Keydar^PI, Amit Pinchevski^PI, Maxim Ifergan^S, Omri Abend^C, The Testimony of the Multitude: Towards a computational model of listening to Holocaust testimony, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming 2025).

2024

Renana Keydar^{PI (LAW)}, Eitan Wagner^ST,Omri Abend^PI, Amit Pinchevski^PI, Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies, Journal of Computational Literary Studies, Volume 2 (forthcoming 2024)
Renana Keydar^{PI (LAW)}, Amit Pinchevski^PI, Maxim Ifergan^ST, Omri Abend, The Testimony of the Multitude: Towards a Computational Model of Listening to Holocaust Testimony, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (forthcoming 2024)
Renana Keydar^{PI (LAW)}, Amit Pinchevski^PI, Maxim Ifergan^ST, Omri Abend, Testimony from the Machine: Listening to Holocaust Testimony as a Whole, Law, Society and Culture – Law and the Material Turn, Volume 7 (forthcoming 2024) (Hebrew)

Articles

2024

Renana Keydar^PI, Eitan Wagner^S, Omri Abend^C, Amit Pinchevski^C, Automatic Topic-Guided Segmentation of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies, Journal of Computational Literary Studies 2 (2024), 26 pp.
Renana Keydar^PI, Vera Shikleman^PI, Tomer Broude^c, Jonathan Elkobi^s, The Discursive Evolution of HumanRights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations, Human Rights Law Review 24(4) (2024), 37 pp.

2022

Renana Keydar^PI, Yael Litmanovitz^PI, Badi Hasisi, Yoav Kantor^ST, Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events, Law and Social Inquiry, 47(4) (2022), 1075–1105.
Renana Keydar, Changing the Lens on Survivor Testimony: Topic Modeling the Eichmann Trial, Jewish Studies Quarterly 29(4) (2022), 412-435.

2020

Renana Keydar, Listening from Afar: An Algorithmic Analysis of Testimonies from the International Criminal Courts, Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy (2020), 55-83.

2019

Renana Keydar, ‘Lessons in Humanity’: Re-evaluating International Criminal Law’s Narrative of Progress in the Post 9/11 Era, Journal of International Criminal Justice 17.2 (2019), 229-257.
Renana Keydar, ‘Everyone’s Child’: The Challenge of Judging Israeli Soldiers in the Shadow of the Conflict, Law, Culture and the Humanities 18(3) (2019), 765-788.
Renana Keydar, Mass Atrocity, Mass Testimony, and the Quantitative Turn in International Law, Law and Society Review 53.2 (2019) 554-587.

2015

Renana Keydar, Rethinking Plurality: On Ethics and Storytelling in the Search for Justice, Dibur Literary Journal 1(2015), 19-27.

2013

Renana Keydar, 'I Was in a War, and in a War Things Like that Happen': On Judgments and Ethical Investigations in Israeli Law and Literature, Jewish Social Studies 18(3) (2013), 212-224.

Hebrew Publications

2024

Renana Keydar, Survivor Testimony of the October 7 Events: Between the Legal and the Documentary, Remembrance and Research 5 (2024), 8 pp. (in Hebrew).
Renana Keydar^PI, Amit Pinchevski^PI, Maxim Ifergan^S, Omri Abend^C, Testimony from the Machine: Listening to Holocaust Testimony as a Whole, Law, Society and Culture–Law and the Material Turn 7 (2024), 25 pp. (in Hebrew).

2023

Asaf Wiener, Renana Keydar, Regulating Social Networks and Offensive Content in Israel: A Computational Analysis of the Policy Design Discourse, Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL) – Position Paper (19.1.2023) (in Hebrew).
Zvi Triger, Renana Keydar, Aeyal Gross and Ido Katri, Violation of LGBT Rights as a result of the Proposed Regime Changes in Israel, The Law Professors’ Forum for Democracy – Position Paper 37 (2023) (in Hebrew).

2018

Renana Keydar and Ron Dudai, Imagined Justice: Civil Society, Literature and Critical Transitional Justice in Israel, Theory and Criticism 50 (2018), 371-390.
Renana Keydar, Judging the Sons: Facing Human Rights Abuses in Protracted Conflicts, Alpayim Ve’od 1 (2018), 52-61.

Chapters

2021

Renana Keydar, The State Becomes (Again) the Homeland: Consequences, in: The Future of the State – the State of the Future, eds. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Scheu, René, Reclam Verlag (2021), 52-58 (German).

Conference Proceedings

2024

Maxim Ifergan^S, Identifying Narrative Patterns and Outliers in Holocaust Testimonies Using Topic Modeling Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources, LREC-COLING 2024.
Eitan Wagner^S, Renana Keydar^PI, and Omri Abend^PI, Zero-shot Trajectory Mapping in Holocaust Testimonies, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources, LREC-COLING 2024.

2023

Eliya Habba^ST, Renana Keydar^PI^(LAW), Dan Bareket, Gabriel Stanovsky^PI^(CS), The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Judicial Attitudes towards Victims of Sexual Violence, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023)
Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend, Event-Location Tracking in Narratives: A Case Study on Holocaust Testimonies, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

2022

Mohr Wenger^S, Tom Kalir^S, Noga Berger^C, Carmit Chalamish^C, Renana Keydar^PI, Gabriel Stanovsky^PI, Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Natural Legal Language Processing, co-located with the 2021 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

2021

Mohr Wenger^ST, Tom Kalir^ST, Renana Keydar^{PI (LAW)}, Gabriel Stanovsky^{PI (CS)}, Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language, Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Natural Legal Language Processing, co-located with the 2021 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Scientific Conferences

2024

2024, Annual Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities Conference (#DHJewish), University of Potsdam, Germany—Emergent Voices: Applying DH methods in a Digital Archive of Testimonies during Wartime (presentation).
2024, Quantifying the Holocaust, Paris 1 University, France—Beyond the Fragmented Voice: Harnessing Technology for Collective Listening to Holocaust Testimonies (presentation).
2024, Annual Digital Humanities Conference (DH2024), George Mason University, Washington D.C. and Virtual— Structuring a Digital Archive of Survivor Testimony in Times of Emergency (virtual presentation)
2024, Israeli Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IsraHCI), Tel Aviv University, Israel— Edut710: Human-Computer Interactions in Building an Archive of October 7th Survivor Testimonies (keynote speaker).
2024, Lessons and Legacies XVII: Languages of the Holocaust, Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California, CA., USA—Distant reading languages of the Holocaust: Experiments in machine-reading survivor testimony (presentation).

2023

2023, Online Workshop on Computational Analysis of Law, Virtual and University of Virginia, VA., USA— The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Sex Crime Cases from the Israeli Legal System (presentation).
2023, Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, University of Antwerp, Belgium—Regulating Digital Technologies (Presentation).
2023, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), University of Minho, Portugal—The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Judicial Attitudes towards Victims of Sexual Violence (Presentation).
2023, Platform Governance Research Network Conference, Virtual —AI and Platform Governance (Presentation).
2023, Algorithmic Analysis of the Law: Natural Legal Language Processing in Hebrew, Tel Aviv University, Israel—Legal Research in the Age of AI: Toward Qualitative Analysis with Computational Tools (keynote speaker).

2022

2022, Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), University of Virginia, VA., USA— Defining the Duty to Consult from Below: Algorithmic Analysis of Indigenous and Minority Claims before Inquiry Commissions (Presentation).
2022, Online Workshop on Computational Analysis of Law, Virtual and University of Virginia, VA., USA —Rethinking Human Rights Proliferation as Norm Density: A Computational Study of 180,000 UN Recommendations (Presentation).
2022, Annual President Haim Herzog international conference on The Role of Law in Diverse Societies Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel—Voicing the Claims of the Minority: A Computational Analysis of Bedouin Testimonies before Israeli State Mechanisms (invited speaker).
2022, Annual Israeli Law and Society Association Conference, Peres Academic Center, Rehovot, Israel—Law under conditions of uncertainty: implications of non-publication of court decisions (Panel organizer and speaker).
2022, Annual Israeli Law and Society Association Conference, Peres Academic Center, Rehovot, Israel— Minority groups’ Testimonies before governmental bodies – a Computational Analysis (Presentation).
2022, Annual Public Law Association Conference (I-CON-S), Academic Center for Law and Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel—Minority groups’ Testimonies before governmental bodies – a Computational Analysis (Presentation).
2022, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal— The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Sex Crime Cases from the Israeli Legal System (presentation).

2021

2021, Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing, Virtual and Punta Caña, Dominican Republic—Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language (presentation).
2021, Annual Law and Society Association Conference, Virtual and Chicago, IL., USA— Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events (presentation).
2021, Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Conference, Virtual and Austin, TX., USA—Scaled Reading: A New Hybrid Model for Analyzing Testimonial Narratives of Repressive Protest Policing (presentation).
2021, European Association for Digital Humanities Annual Conference, Virtual and Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia — Scaled Reading: A new Computational Model for Analyzing Testimonial Narratives of Repressive Protest Policing (presentation).
2021, Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics (ISCOL), Ben Gurion University—Automated Extraction of Sentencing Decisions from Court Cases in the Hebrew Language (poster presentation).

2020

2020, Cyber Law Program, Federmann Cyber Security Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem—Topic Modeling a Trial: Data and Metadata (invited speaker).
2020, Literary Lab Workshop, Ben Gurion University—Between Close and Distant Reading (invited speaker).

Other invited talks

2023

2023, DisinfoCon, Berlin, Germany—Will generative AI be the end of democracy? (invited speaker).

2022

2022, Lawyers’ Circle of the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC, USA—Holocaust Research in the Digital Age (invited speaker).