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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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