TAU Law professor named president of Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities

Prof. Nili Cohen of TAU’s Buchmann Faculty of Law chosen to head foremost scientific body in Israel

01 July 2015
Prof. Nili Cohen

 

Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Nili Cohen was elected as the next president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities starting in the fall. Prof. Cohen is a former TAU Rector and an expert in law with research interests in contracts, torts, restitution, comparative law and law and literature. She is the author of Interference with Contractual Relations, Inducing Breach of Contract and co-author of Contracts I, II, III and IV. She also edited Comparative Remedies for Breach of Contract and contributed a chapter to the book, among several other publications.  Prof. Cohen is the recipient of the Sussman Prize (in both 1984 and 1992) and was awarded the Zeltner Prize in 1989, the Minkoff Prize for excellence in Law in 2002 and the Rector Prize for Excellence in Teaching (in 2003/4 and 2004/5). She is the incumbent of the Benno Gitter Chair in Comparative Contract Law and the director of the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Fund for Human Rights in Private Law.

 

 

 

She will be the second woman to serve as president of the prestigious Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, following outgoing President Prof. Ruth Arnon. Established in 1961, the Academy was founded as a way to bring together leaders in the sciences and humanities. Comprising 120 expert members from a broad range of fields in the natural and exact sciences, liberal arts, and social sciences, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities advises the government on issues of national importance.

 

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