Prof. Nili Cohen

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• Was born in Kfar Saba in 1947.
• Attended Ironi D High School in Tel Aviv.
• She completed her military service in the Israel Defense Forces with the rank of lieutenant.
• She studied in the first class of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, graduating with honors in 1971.
• During her studies, she served as the first editor of the Iyunei Mishpat law journal.
• She completed her legal internship under attorney Yosef Elkas and Justice Prof. Zeev Zeltner.
• In 1975, she earned her master’s degree from Tel Aviv University with highest honors, and in 1978, she received her doctorate from the same institution.
• At the beginning of her academic career, she worked as a teaching and research assistant in the fields of evidence law and property law.
• In 1977, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Upon returning to Israel in 1978, she was appointed as a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, where she taught contract law.
• In 1982, she was promoted to senior lecturer, and in 1985, she was appointed associate professor.
• In 1989, she was promoted to full professor at Tel Aviv University.
• From 1994 to 1997, she served as Vice Rector, and from 1997 to 2001, she was Rector of Tel Aviv University.
• In 2004, she was elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and served as its president from September 2015 to 2021.
• She is a recipient of the Israel Prize in legal research (2017) and has twice been awarded the Zussman Prize in Law. She has also received the Minkoff Prize for Excellence in Law and the Zeltner Prize in Law.
• In 2017, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Haifa.
• In 2018 by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in recognition of her research in law.
• Since 2018, she has been a member of the Academia Europaea.
• In February 2022, she was elected a full member of the American Philosophical Society, and in July 2023, she was elected a foreign member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences (Accademia dei Lincei).

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