Dr. Shani Friedman is a lawyer and has a PhD from the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her fields of expertise are international relations, and international law, specifically the law of the sea and international institutions. She was a postdoctoral researcher in international law at UBO, AMURE lab, Brest, France, as part of the DEEPREST project. Within the project, she researches different questions relating to the legal regime and governance framework of deep-sea mining such as liability, sharing of benefits and interaction with other frameworks within the law of the sea, such as the BBNJ agreement. Her current research project focuses on questions concerning the global freedom of navigation, collective security and maritime security, and the governance of common interests.