Human Rights in a Multi-Cultural Democracy

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Venue:FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, RDB 1000

A Lecture by Nili Cohen, Tel Aviv University

February 29, 2012 | 12 PM | FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus | RDB 1000

Nili Cohen is a professor of law at Tel Aviv University, the incumbent of the Benno Gitter Chair for Comparative Contract Law, and a member of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities and the American Law Institute. Her teaching and research interests concern contracts, torts, restitution, comparative law and law and literature. She has been awarded the Minkoff Prize for Excellence in Law and the Zeltner Prize for Law and is the two-time recipient of both the Sussman Prize for Law and the Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Cohen has published widely and is co-editor of Academic Freedom and The Three Religions and author of Interference with Contractual Relations and Inducing Breach of Contract. She has published more than 50 articles in Israeli and international law reviews, and her books and articles are frequently cited in Israeli court cases.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please see the attached flyer or call 305-348-7266.

Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, the International Law Students Association, the Jewish Law Students Association, the International Law Society, Shalom FIU, the College of Law and American Friends of Tel Aviv University.

The Spring 2012 Judaic Studies Program Lecture Series is supported in part by Targum Shlishi, A Raquel and Aryeh Rubin Foundation.