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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:
Webinar: Defense Industry in a Changing Reality
Our firm, together with BDO, will host a professional webinar on the key issues companies and funds operating in the defense industry should know, from opportunities and challenges in the defense and dual-use export environment, through VAT, customs, and targeted tax incentives, to legal, financial, and accounting readiness for capital raises, IPOs, and becoming a public company. Adv. Elad Reshtick and Prof. Amichai Cohen from our firm, alongside BDO experts, will speak at the webinar, which will take place on June 30, 2026, at 11:00 AM.
Op-Ed: Implications of Classifying Advanced AI Models as Dual-Use Technology for Israeli Companies
Dr. Avishay Klein, Prof. Amichai Cohen, and Dr. Nadine Liv published an op-ed in Israel Defense following a US regulatory precedent under which advanced AI models were classified as dual-use technology on national security grounds. In the op-ed, they examine the potential implications of this development for Israeli companies.