Prof. Daniel Benoliel (LL.B, LL.M, J.S.D.) is a law professor at the University’s Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT).

Daniel’s main fields of expertise include intellectual property, law and economics, public international law, and entrepreneurship law. He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at Berkeley and an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). He was also a Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich Visiting Fellow, and a Post-Doctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Residential Fellow with the Law and Economics Graduate College at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

He was an invited visiting professor and taught at various universities in Europe and America. These include the University of Oxford (2021 & 2022), University of Bologna (2018), Technion–Israel Institute of Technology (2010-2019), University of Masaryk (2014), University of Lucerne (2009), Hebrew University (2007, 2016), and Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo (2009).

Benoliel received numerous prizes, awards, and research grants over the course of his career. These include the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants (2015-2017, 2018), the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions grant (2015), the University of Haifa Gishush grant (2010), the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum award (2009), the Microsoft Research Award for best article (ALACDE, 2009), the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004) grants, the 1st place article awards at both the 14^th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) and the 13^th  Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002), and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) grant (2002).

Benoliel authored and edited four books. These are Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (CUP, 2017) & (Chinese edition) (CUP & China National Publishing Foundation, 2023); Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Daniel Benoliel, Peter Yu, Francis Gurry & Keun Lee, eds.) (CUP, 2024) (forthcoming), and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017, in Portuguese.

Prof. Benoliel serves as legal advisor to the Zuckerman Institute, which supports academic research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the United States and Israel. In addition, he wrote legal opinions and advised high-tech companies traded on Nasdaq and many start-up companies in telecommunications, biosciences, software, e-commerce, and medical devices. Daniel is also a marathoner and an Ironman triathlete.