1 Curriculum Vitae Education 1967-1971 LL.B. magna cum laude Tel-Aviv University 1971-1975 LL.M. summa cum laude Tel-Aviv University Thesis: "The Application of Law of Contracts to Juristic Acts and Obligations" (under the supervision of Prof. Z. Zeltner) 1975-1978 Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University Dissertation: "The Protection of Obligation Against Interference by Third Parties" (under the supervision of Prof. D. Friedmann) Experience Academic Positions 1971-1977 Assistant, Instructor, Tel-Aviv University 1977-1978 Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania 1978-1979 Instructor, Tel-Aviv University 1979-1982 Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University 1982-1985 Senior Lecturer (tenure), Tel-Aviv University 1985-1986 Associate Professor, Tel-Aviv University 1986-1987 Visiting Professor, Temple University 1987-1989 Associate Professor. Tel-Aviv University 1989-2015 Full Professor, Tel-Aviv University 2002 2003 2015 - Visiting Scholar, New-York University Emeritus Administrative Positions 1985-1986 Chairperson of the committee for students' affairs in the Faculty of Law 1988-1992 University committee for LlM students 1988-1993 Chairperson of the follow-up committee of the LlM students in the Theater Arts Department 1988-1994 Chairperson of departmental committee for research students 1994-1997 Vice Rector, Tel-Aviv University 1997-2001 Rector, Tel-Aviv University 2000-2016 Member, Academic Committee, Venice International University 2001-2005 Pro-Rector, Tel-Aviv University
2 2003-2005 Appointments Committee, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University 2005-2007 Member of the follow-up committee of the LlM Berkeley Program in the Faculty of Law 2006-2015 Appointments Committee, Faculty of Law Governmental Committees 1983-2004 Member of the committee for the codification of Israeli Law (Chairman: President of the Supreme Court, A. Barak) 2003-2004 Member of the Task Force for the Promotion of the Educational System in Israel Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2004 - member 2015 - President Prizes and Honors 1975 Douckhan Prize for a research on "Assignment of Lease" 1984 Sussman Prize for the book "Interference with Contractual Relations" 1989 Zeltner Prize for the book "Inducing Breach of Contract" 1992 Sussman Prize for the book "Contracts", Vol. 1 1998 Honorary Professor, University of Buenos Aires 2002 Benno Gitter Chair in Comparative Contract Law 2002 Minkoff Prize for Excellence in Law 2003/4 Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2004/5 Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2006 Member, American Law Institute 2014/5 Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2016 Honorary Degree, Netanya Academic College 2017 Israel Prize for Legal Research 2017 Honorary Degree, Holon Institute of Technology 2018 Honorary Doctorate, Haifa University Publications & Work in progress Books 1. N. Cohen, Interference with Contractual Relations, Ramot (1982) 430pp (Hebrew) (Sussman Prize)
3 2. N. Cohen, Inducing Breach of Contract, Hebrew University (1986) 330pp (Hebrew) (Zeltner Prize) 3. N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Contracts Vol A, Aviram (1991) 740pp (Hebrew) (Sussman Prize) 4. N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Contracts Vol. B, Aviram (1992) 740pp (Hebrew) 5. N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann and other participants), Contracts Vol. C, Aviram (2003) 777 pp (Hebrew) 6. N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann),Contracts Vol. D, Aviram (2011) 790pp (Hebrew) Books (Editor) 1. N. Cohen (with E. Leibowitz), University in 2010, Ramot (2000) 320pp (Hebrew) 2. N. Cohen (with A. Heldrich), Academic Freedom, (Herbert UTZ, Munich, 2001) 179 pp. 3. N. Cohen (with A. Heldrich), The Three Religions, (Herbert UTZ, Munich, 2002) 150 pp. 4. N. Cohen (with E.McKendrick), Comparative Remedies for Breach of Contract, (Hart, Oxford, 2005) 320 pp. 5. N. Cohen (with O. Groskopf), Daniel s Book - Inquiries in the Scholarship of Professor Daniel Friedmann (Nevo, 2008) 1223pp. Books (in preparation) N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Contracts Vol A, 2nd ed. (Hebrew) Articles 1.N. Cohen, The Breach of the Right of Pleading, Hapraklit 28: 180-185 (1970) (Hebrew) 2.N. Cohen, Instructing a Statutory Authority, TAU L. Rev. 1: 181-202 (1971) (Hebrew) 3.N. Cohen, Right of Use a "Right in Land", TAU L. Rev. 4: 415-441 (1975) (Hebrew) 4.N. Cohen, Is the Purchaser "Another Creditor of the Debtor", TAU L. Rev. 4: 464-474 (1975) (Hebrew) 5.N. Cohen, Contract Law and Guarantee Law, TAU L. Rev. 7: 225-237 (1979) (Hebrew) 6.N. Cohen, The Effect of an Exemption Clause on Quasi - Contractual Right to Receive Moneys from a Third Party, TAU. L. Rev. 7: 460-485 (1979) (Hebrew) 7.N. Cohen, The Nature of the Undertaking to Effect a Transaction, Tel-Aviv University Studies in Law 4: 33-85 (1978/9) 8.N. Cohen, Interference with Contractual Relations and Equitable Doctrines, Modern Law Review 45: 241-267 (1982) 9.N. Cohen, Interference with Performance of a Fiduciary Obligation, Israel Law Review 7: 12-61 (1982) 10.N. Cohen, Rescission of a Contract and its Effect on Unregistered Transaction in Land, Hapraklit 35: 215-242 (1983) (Hebrew) (published also in the Jubilee Issue of Hapraklit) 11.N. Cohen, The Protection of a Right of Use in of a Trademark, Hapraklit 36: 288-309 (1985) (Hebrew)
4 12.N. Cohen, Contract Law and Good Faith in Negotiation: Formalism versus Justice, Hapraklit 37: 13-61 (1986) (Hebrew) 13.N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Problems in the Law of Multiple Debtors, Lowenberg Book: 51-93 (1988) (Hebrew) 14.N. Cohen, Strike Losses, Economic Loss and Inducing Breach of Contract, TAU L. Rev. 14: 173-192 (1989) (Hebrew) 15.N. Cohen, Form of a Contract, Hapraklit 38: 383-453 (1989) (Hebrew) 16.N.Cohen, Good Faith in Bargaining Process and Principles of Contract Law, 9 Tel-Aviv University Studies in Law: 249-310 (1989) 17.N. Cohen, Status, Freedom and Inducing Breach of Contract, Hapraklit 39: 304-318 (1990) (Hebrew) 18.N. Cohen, Status, Freedom and Contract, 10 Tel Aviv University Studies in Law: 213-228 (1990) 19.N. Cohen, The Law and the Book, TAU L. Rev. 16: 435-443 (1991) (Hebrew) 20.N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Payment of Another's Debt, International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Chap. 10 in Vol. 10 on Restitution (1991) 70pp 21.N. Cohen (With D. Friedmann), Adjustment among Multiple Debtors, International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Chap. 11 in Vol. 10 on Restitution (1991) 90pp 22.N. Cohen, Political Agreements, 26 Israel Law Rev: 499-530 (1992) 23.N. Cohen, Equality versus Freedom of Contract, Hamishpat 1: 131-147 (1993) (Hebrew) 24.N. Cohen (with D. Friedmann), Selecting Minds in a Multicultural, Besieged, Isolated Society,41 American Journal of Comparative Law: 449-464 (1993) (translated into French in 1996 - Revue Internationale de Droit Compare 633-645) 25.N. Cohen, A Minor s Contract to Acquire Interest in Land, As against the Vendor s Creditor, Hapraklit 41: 161-194 (1993) (Hebrew) 26.N. Cohen, The Quiet Revolution in the Enforcement of Illegal Contracts (1994), Lloyd s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 163 27.N. Cohen, Two Freedoms and the Contract to Negotiate, Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law [J. Beatson and D. Friedmann Editors] Oxford University Press: 25-56 (1995) 28.N. Cohen, Freedom of Trade and Commercial Competition, TAU L. Rev. 19: 353-393 (1995) (Hebrew) 29.N. Cohen, Illegality: The Case for Discretion, The Limits of Restitutionary Claims: A Comparative Analysis, [W. Swadling Editor]: 186-212 [UKNCCL 1997] 30.N. Cohen, The Effect of the Duty of Good Faith on a Previously Common Law System, Good Faith in Contract (Concept and Context), [R. Brownsword N.J.Hird, G. Howells Editors]: 189-212 (Ashgate 1998) 31.N. Cohen, Articles of Association as a Contract and as a Standard Contract, Hapraklit 44: 286-292 (1999) (Hebrew) 32.N. Cohen, The Three Religions, Encuentro de las tres Confesiones Religiosas [A. de la Hera, R.M. Martinez de Codes Eds]: 69-74 (1999 - Madrid)
5 33.N. Cohen, University in 2010, in University in 2010 [E. Leibowitz, N. Cohen Editors]: 10-20 (Ramot, 2000) (Hebrew) 34.N. Cohen, Israeli Law as a Mixed System - Between Common Law and Continental Law, Global Jurist Topics: Vol. 1: No. 1,Article 1 (2001) (12pp) http://www.bepress.com/gj/topics/vol1/iss1/1 published also in: The Common Core of European Private Law (Bussani & Mattei Editors) Kluwer (2002). 35.N. Cohen, Excellence in Law, Hapraklit 46 (2002): 233-240 (2002) (Hebrew) 36.N. Cohen, On Sight, On Blindness, On Advantage & Disadvantage, Shamgar Book. Essays Vol. C : 611-631 (2003) (Hebrew) 37.N. Cohen, The Liberation of Justitia and Clio: Some reflections on Law and History Following "The Liberating Bride", Hamishpat 8 :17-38 (2003) (Hebrew) 38.N. Cohen, Remedies for Breach Through the Beneficiary s Lens, in Comparative Remedies for Breach of Contracts (N. Cohen & E. McKendrick Editors) (Hart, Oxford): 157-187 (2005) 39.N. Cohen, Right and Remedy in the Enforcement of Debt, Festschrift fuer Andreas Heldrich (Beck, Munich) :39-54 (2005) 40.N. Cohen, Right and Remedy in the Enforcement of Debt - From the Remedies Law to the Codification (Hebrew), Hapraklit 45: 355-376 (2006) 41.N. Cohen, The Fall and the Rise of a Promise to Marry (Hebrew) Hamishpat 11: 27-53 (2006) (Hebrew) 42.N. Cohen, Remedies for Breach of Contract for the Benefit of a Third Party, Essays in Memory of Prof. Menashe Shava: 85-113 (2006) (Hebrew) 43.N. Cohen, Fate and Law, Hapraklit 49: 23-46 (2006) (Hebrew) 44.N. Cohen, Memory and Forgetfulness in Law, On Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Doron Mendels editor: 135-147 (Peter Lang, Bern, 2007) 45. N. Cohen, Taboo and Incest in A"B Yehoshua, New Keshet 21: 59-72 (2007) (Hebrew) 46.N. Cohen, The Four C s: Coherence, Clarification, Continuity, Change - Remedies for Breach of Contract in the Israeli Civil Code, The Draft Civil Code for Israel in Comparative Perspective, Kurt Siehr and Reinhard Zimmermann editors: 51-73 (Mohr, Tuebingen, 2008) 47.N. Cohen, Remedies for Breach of Contract: From Right to Remedy; From Remedies Law to the Civil Code Draft, Daniel s Book - Inquiries in the Scholarship of Professor Daniel Friedmann: 57-109 (Nevo, 2008) (Hebrew) 48.N. Cohen, On Parents, Children and Ingratitude: The Transaction of King Lear, Hamishpat (May 2008) (Hebrew) 49.N. Cohen, Memory, Forgetfulness, Precedent, Hamishpat 13: (2008) (Hebrew) 50.N. Cohen, University as Utopia, New Keshet 23: 64-77 (2008) (Hebrew) 51.N. Cohen, A Tale of One Apartment. Hamishpat, In Honor of M. Ben-Porath (2008) (Hebrew)
6 52.N. Cohen, From the Common Law to the Civil Law The Experience of Israel, Precontractual Liability in European Private Law 398-430, John Cartwright and Martijn Hesselink eds, Cambridge University Press (2008) 53.N. Cohen, Distributive Justice in the Enforcement of Contracts, Festschrift fuer Gunter Kuehne: 971-1003, Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft (2009) 54. N. Cohen, Substituted Performance, Itzhak Englard Book 145-190 (2010) (Hebrew) 55.N. Cohen, The Justice Exception in Enforcing Contracts,33 TAU L. Rev. 241-276 (2010) (Hebrew) 56. N. Cohen, Fantasy, Mimesis and Lost Charity, 25 Kivunim Chadashim 144-156 (2011) (Hebrew) 57. N. Cohen, Name, Memory, Law, Culture, Memory, History, Anita Shapira Book 27-51 (2012) (Hebrew) 58. N. Cohen, Law, Play, Game - The "Merchant of Venice" and the "Breakdown", 51 Hapraklit 407-441 (2012) (Hebrew) 59. N. Cohen,The Slayer Rule, 92 Boston U L Rev 793-810 (2012) 60. N. Cohen, Prisoners, Communities and Natural Authority, 14 Law and Business 595-637 (2012) (Hebrew) 61. N. Cohen, Privatization and Patriarchy - Sanctions and Education, 27 Israel Studies Review 108-142 (2012) 62. N. Cohen, Law, Morality and Ex Turpi Causa, Orr Book 259-304 (2013) (Hebrew) 63. N. Cohen, Faithfulness of Interpreter, 35 TAU L. Rev. 587-637 (2013) (Hebrew) 64. N. Cohen, The Betrayed(?) Wills of Kafka and Brod, Kafka- New Perspectives Research and Analysis (2013) (Hebrew) 65. N. Cohen, Property, Liability, Competition, Law and Business (2014) (Hebrew) 66. N. Cohen, The Betrayed (?) Wills of Kafka and Brod, 27 Law and Literature 1-23 (2015) eprint/yqtsww9zvd2ngs6abaex/full 67. N. Cohen, The Breaching Party s Choice, Joseph Gross Book 161-196 (2015) (Hebrew) 68. N. Cohen, The Breaching Party's Election and the Burden of Substitute Transaction, ZWISCHENBILANZ Festschrift Fuer Dagmar Coester-Waltjen 975-995 (2015) 69. N. Cohen, Love, Story, Law From the Scarlet Letter to Freedom and Privacy, 28 Law and Literature 209-231 (2016) 70. N. Cohen, Between Home and Market, Shtrasberg-Cohen Book 419-464 (2017) (Hebrew) 71. N. Cohen, Love Story: Freedom of Love; Prohibition to Tell Its Story, Nili Cohen Book 237-287 (2017) (Hebrew) 72. N. Cohen, Consent and Contract concerning Procreation The Framework, UN GIURISTA DI SUCCESSO, Studi in onore di Antonio Gambaro1011-1028 (2017) 73. N. Cohen, Modern Guardianship in Historical Perspective, Ancient Guardianship: Legal Incapacities in the Ancient World 11-27 (2017) 74. N. Cohen, German Law in Israeli Courts, Comparative Studies in the Humanities195-222 (2018)
7 Accepted for publication 75. N. Cohen, Agreements and Contracts in the Intimate Sphere, Shalev Book (Hebrew) 76. N. Cohen, Tragedy in Life, Tragedy in law In preparation 77. N. Cohen, When Play and Game Meet the Law 78. N. Cohen, The Trials of Shylock and Shakespeare Membership in Professional and Academic Organizations 1972 Member, Israeli Bar Association 1997- Member, Academic Committee, Itzhak Rabin Center 2001 1999 Associate member of the International Academy for Comparative Law 1999- Head, Legislative Committee of Head of Universities Committee 2001 2000- Member, Academic Council, Venice International University 2016 2001 Associate Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (forum of law teachers in UK) 2002- Director, the Beverly and Raymond Sackler Fund for Human Rights in Private Law 2003- Member in the Minerva Beirat for Human Rights 2004-5 Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University 2012-2014 Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University 2015 - Member, Board of Directors, Institute of Advanced Studies Important Lectures 1995- Oxford Modern Contract law 1995 University of London Society of Legal Scholars - Illegality 1996 University of Sheffield Fault in Contracting 1997 University of Munich Good Faith in Contracts 1998- Institute of Comparative law Buenos Aires Israel between Two Systems 1999 Tel-Aviv University University in 2010
8 2000 - Tel-Aviv University Regulation of a Cooperative Society as a Standard Contract 2000 University of Buenos Aires Constitutional Values and Contract Law 2001 University of Trento Continental and Common Law in Israeli Contract law 2002 New-York University Citizenship and Identity in Academia 2003 Autonoma University of Mexico - Institute for Legal Research - Equality in Contracts 2004 Hebrew University, Ministry of Justice Remedies for Breach of Contract 2005 University of Munich Public Values in Private Law 2005 Hebrew University Law and Forgetfulness 2005 University of Trento Principles of European Contract Law 2005 Tel-Aviv University Fate and Law 2005 Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Marriage and a Breach of a Promise to Marry 2005- Neeman Institute Tel-Aviv University Rules of the Game of Israeli Higher Education 2005 - Tel-Aviv University Hanoch Dagan Colloquium - Changing Rights through Restitution 2006 Tel-Aviv University - Future of Research University 2006 Haifa University President Barak s Impact on the Law - Classification and Individuals: Rights and Remedies in Contracts 2006 - Tel-Aviv University Leora Bilsky Colloquium - Transformative Justice 2007 Max Planck Institute Hamburg - The Four C's: Coherence, Clarification, Continuity, Change Remedies for Breach of Contract in Israeli Codification 2007 - Tel-Aviv University Taboo, Incest, Bigamy AB Yehoshua's Conference 2007 Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Fatherland and the Right and Claim to Return 2007 - Tel-Aviv University The Gift of King Lear King Lear Conference 2007 - Tel-Aviv University Roy Kreitner Colloquium - Calculating Contracting Party 2008 Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club University as Utopia 2008 Tel-Aviv University Name, Memory History and Memory Conference in honor of Anita Shapira 2008 - Tel-Aviv University Fate, Time, God David Grossman's Conference 2008- India, New Delhi Center for Policy Research Public and Private Divide
9 2009- Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Queens 2009 - Judges Institute for Advances Studies - Remedies and Privity of Contract 2010 - Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Ex Turpi Causa 2010 - Tel-Aviv University James B White Colloquium - Living Speech 2010 IDC Prisoners and Communities Amnon Rubinstein Conference 2010 Annual Conference- Israel Bar Association Interpretation and Over- Interpretation 2010- Tel-Aviv University Shoham Colloquium Market Overt and the Myth of Sisyphus 2011 Bar Ilan University Israeli Association of Private Law Contract Interpretation 2011- Annual Conference- Israel Bar Association Gratuitous Transactions 2011 - Tel-Aviv University Tel-Aviv U L Rev Ceremony -On Ceremony and Sincerity 2011 - Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club The Myth of Lincoln 2011- Boston University Restitution Conference - The Slayer Rule 2011 - Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Law as Play and Game 2012- IDC Distributive Justice Ayala Procaccia Conference 2012- Judges Institute for Advances Studies Remedies for Breach of Contract 2012- Israel Bar Association Ex turpi causa in torts 2013- Conference- Israel Bar Association On Merchants in Venice and Israel 2013 - Tel-Aviv University Dotan Conference On Excellence 2013-Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities Englard Conference Justice, Markets and Past Consciousness 2013- Haifa University Judges Conference Between Law and Literature 2013- Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Alterman in the Inns of Arts and Law 2013 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Ancient Guardianship Conference - Modern Guardianship in Historical Perspective 2013 - Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Memory and Oblivion in Law 2014 - Judges Institute for Advanced Studies Choice of Remedies for Breach of Contract 2015 - Israel Bar Association Rescission of Contract 2015 - Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Love of Law Freedom and Prohibition
10 2015 Hebrew University Law and Theater Conference When Play and Game Meet the Law 2015 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Humboldt Conference Comparisons The Impact of German Law on Israeli Law 2015- Tel-Aviv University Between Privacy and Artistic Freedom 2016 Ben-Gurion University Values and Commitment in Academic Life 2016- Van Leer Institute Ownership and Division 2016- Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Truth and Justice 2016- Judges Institute for Advanced Studies Contracts and Agreements between Markets and Family 2016- Venice, Ca Foscari University Fondazione Cini The Shylock Project - The Trials of Shylock and Shakespeare 2017-Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Revolution of Individual 2017- Tel-Aviv University Law and Literature Club Bartov - Holocaust Memory and Establishment of Israel 2017-Berlin Humboldt Foundation Trust in Science 2018 Ben Gurion University Kafka s Nightmare Updated September 2018