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Amichai Cohen

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Amichai Cohen

Professor Amichai Cohen is a special counsel on international law at 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 Israeli 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

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.B., 1998

Admission:


Israel Bar Association, 1999

Insights & News - Amichai Cohen:


January 8, 2026

New Bank of Israel Directive: Banks May Restrict Accounts of Sanctioned Israelis

On December 30, 2025, the Supervisor of Banks published Directive 412, aimed at instructing banking corporations on providing services to customers subject to international sanctions.
January 5, 2026

2025 Year-End Review: International Law and Its Impact on the Israeli Business Sector

In 2025, several significant changes took place in the international trade arena that directly impacted Israeli companies operating in global and domestic markets. For Israeli society, 2025 underscored the need to quickly adapt to changing rules, including trade becoming a tool for political and economic leverage.
November 20, 2025

Anti-Dumping Levy on Aluminum Profiles from China: Will Israeli Real Estate Prices Continue to Rise?

On October 19, 2025, the Competition Commissioner published her detailed position regarding the proposed anti-dumping levy on imports of aluminum profiles from China. This position expresses strong opposition to the recommendations of the Commissioner of Trade Levies to impose high anti-dumping levies on aluminum imports from China.

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