Nili Cohen

Nili Cohen, Israel Prize laureate in Law Research, Law Professor (emerita), former President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and former rector of Tel-Aviv University. 

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).

A member of the American Law Institute, Academia Europaea, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the American Philosophical Society; Honorary Professor, the University of Buenos Aires, and 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.