Nili Cohen

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Nili Cohen (born 1947) is an Israeli professor and legal expert. She is a recipient of the Israel Prize,[1] and was the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, succeeding Prof. Ruth Arnon,[2] Cohen's role model.[3] She is aa member of the Academia Europaea, of the American Philosophical Society, and a foreign member of the accademia dei lincei.

Biography[edit]

Nili Cohen was born in Kfar Saba, 1947.[4] She grew up and was educated in Tel Aviv and graduated from Ironi Dalet High School.[4] Her father was a teacher in that city.[3] Cohen's grandmother, Batsheva (Bertha) Friedberg Grabelsky, lived in Manhattan, and married a Ukraine immigrant, Boris Grabelsky. Bertha was an editor, translator, Hebraist, and Zionist, who, in the 1920s, published Eden, a newspaper for Jewish teenagers.[3]

An alumnus of Tel Aviv University (TAU), where Cohen received her LL.B., LL.M., and Ph.D. degrees, she was the co-founding editor of the TAU Law Review. In 1998, Cohen received an Honorary Degree from the University of Buenos Aires.[5]

She serves as the Benno Gitter Chair in Comparative Contract Law. From 1994 to 1997, she was the Vice-Rector (1994–1997) of TAU, and served as the Rector from 1997 till 2001.[5] She is the Professor emeritus of TAU's Buchmann Faculty of Law.[1] Cohen became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences in 2004,[3] and was elected its president in 2015.[1]

She was a candidate for Supreme Court of Israel, but her appointment was blocked in a process that garnered political attention.[6][7]

Cohen is a widow; her husband, Amiram Cohen, had been a lawyer. They have two daughters and one son.[3]

Affiliations[edit]

  • Member, American Law Institute[5]
  • Member, Academic Council of Venice International University[8]
  • Associate Member, International Academy for Comparative Law[5]
  • Former member, Committee of the Codification of Israeli Law[5]
  • Member, American Philosophical Society[9]

Awards[edit]

  • 2003/4, 2004/5, and 2014/5, Rector Prize for Excellence in Teaching[5]
  • 2002, Minkoff Prize for excellence in Law[5]
  • 1986 and 1991, Sussman Prize[5]
  • 1989, Zeltner Prize[5]

Selected works[edit]

  • Interference with Contractual Relations
  • Inducing Breach of Contract
  • Contracts A, B, C, D (co-author)
  • Comparative Remedies for Breach of Contract (edited with Ewan McKendrick; also contributed a chapter)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Nili Cohen to receive Israel Prize in Law". TAU Trust UK. Tel Aviv University Trust. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  2. ^ Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (10 June 2015). "Second woman professor will become president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities - HEALTH & SCIENCE - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy (1 January 2017). "Bringing academia down from its ivory tower - HEALTH & SCIENCE - Jerusalem Post". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Nili Cohen" (PDF). bogcms.haifa.ac.il. Board of Governors, University of Haifa. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Prof. Nili Cohen". en-law.tau.ac.il. The Buchmann Faculty of Law. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  6. ^ "The Politics of Justice". Haaretz.
  7. ^ "A justice minister with a passion for criticism". 6 February 2007.
  8. ^ "Prof. Nili Cohen". m.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  9. ^ "The Academy congratulates its Former President Prof. Nili Cohen upon her election as Member of the American Philosophical Society".
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