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Amichai Cohen

Professor Amichai Cohen is a Special counsel on International Law in our firm. Professor Cohen is a faculty member in the Faculty of Law at the Ono Academic College and serves as a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute

Amichai has a prosperous academic career and is a renowned researcher in international law and Israel’s national security law. He has served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York, and the American University-Washington College of Law and as a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

 

In 2013-2016, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Ono Academic College.

 

Amichai has published four books in English and Hebrew and dozens of articles in important journals of the legal world in Israel and abroad.

 

Amichai’s areas of practice include international trade law; Justice and Security, Israeli constitutional law, occupied territories law; International law in Israeli law; And international criminal law.

 

 

Books by Professor Amichai Cohen

 

 

Israel’s National Security Law: Political Dynamics and Historical Development (2011)

 

Law and Security in Israel (2014)

 

The Constitutional Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2020)

 

Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law (2021)

 

Education:


Yale Law School, J.S.D., 2003

Yale Law School, LL.M, 2001

The Hebrew University, LL.B, 1998

Admission:


Member of the Israel Bar Association since 1999

Insights & News - Amichai Cohen:


May 11, 2025

The US tariff regime – reliefs for automobile manufacturers, and prevention of double tariffs

On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order and a Presidential Proclamation, easing some of the customs tariffs on automobiles imposed at the beginning of April.
May 11, 2025

The US government cancelled the de minimis exemption for low-value imports from China

The provision eliminating the de minimis exemption for low-value imports from China to the United States—previously granted for products valued under USD 800—has come into effect.
April 28, 2025

Independence of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States

President Trump has repeatedly called for a lowering of the interest rate in the United States, while intensifying his attacks against the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, and threatening to fire him. According to recent reports, removing Powell is of the table for now, but there is no guarantee the proposal will not resurface in the future.

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