Nili Cohen, Israel Prize laureate, Law Professor (emerita), former President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and former rector of Tel-Aviv University received her LL.B. magna cum laude, LL.M. summa cum laude, and Ph. D. from Tel-Aviv University. As a student she was the co-founding editor of Tel-Aviv university Law Review. She is the author of Interference with Contractual Relations, Inducing Breach of Contract and co-author of Contracts A, B, C, D. Recently she published a book on law and literature: Laws, Sentences and Words. She is the recipient of the Sussman Prize (twice), the Zeltner Prize, the Minkoff Prize for excellence in Law in 2002, and the Rector Prize for Excellence in Teaching (thrice).
Nili Cohen, a member of the American Law Institute, Academia Europaea and the American Philosophical Society, is an Honorary Professor, the University of Buenos Aires, and an honorary doctor, Haifa University and Ben-Gurion University. She was a member of the Committee of the Codification of Israeli Law. As Rector she established the relations between TAU and Venice International University and served as a member of its Academic Council.
