Head of the Honors Program and Senior Lecturer

J.S.D. (doctorate), School of Law, Yale University, USA; LL. B. School of Law, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Formerly an attorney at Y. Arnon and Co. Jerusalem, Israel. Member of the Executive Board of Concord – Research Center for the Interplay between International Norms and Israeli Law.

Research Fields: Internalization of international public law in Israel; attitude of national courts to international courts; laws of occupation in international law; constitutional theory in Israeli law.

 

 

Courses taught by Attorney Dr. Amichai Cohen:

·           Public International Law

·           European Union Law

·           International Humanitarian Law

 

Publications:

·           Cohen, A. (2004). “Review Article on International Law by Robbie Sabel.” Israel Law Review, 30 p. 209

·           Cohen, A. (2005). "Bureaucratic Internalization: Domestic Governmental Agencies and the Legitimization of International Law." 36(4) Georgetown Journal of International Law, pp. 1079-1144.

·           Cohen, A. (2005). "Administering the Territories: An Inquiry into the Application of International Humanitarian Law by the IDF in the Territories" 38(3) Israel Law Review 24(79).

·           Cohen, A. (2006). "The Supreme Court and the Israeli-Arab Conflict: The Perspective of International Law,” Kiryat Hamishpat 6.

·           Cohen, A. and Shany, Y. (2007). "A development of Modest proportions: The Application of the Principle of Proportionality in the Targeted Killing Case," Journal of International Criminal Justice, 5(2) p. 310 (2007).

·           Cohen, A. (2007). "Unequal Partnership? The Internalization of International Law into Israeli Law by the Israeli Supreme Court: The Case of the Territories," Netanya Academic College Law Review, 6 p. 157 [Hebrew].

·           Cohen, A. (2007). "Public Choice and Purposive Interpretation," Mishpat Umimshal 11(1) p. 317 [Hebrew].

·           Cohen, A. (2007). “Review Essay on International Law – In War and Peace,” Hapareklit 49, p. 543 [Hebrew].

·           Cohen, A. (2009, forthcoming). “Strategies of the of National Justice; National Courts” Response to International Courts Criticism of their Decisions” in Stern, Y. (ed.) Concepts of Justice in Different Cultures.

·           Cohen, A. (2008). "Public Choice: Principles and Research in Israel," Kiryat Hamishpat 7 p. 115.

·           Cohen, A. (2008). "Domestic Courts and Sovereignty," in Shany, Y. (ed.) Sovereignty, Supremacy, Subsidiarity: in honor of Prof. Ruth Lapidot. Hart, p. 265.

·           Cohen, A (2008). "Rules and Standards in the Application of IHL" forthcoming 2008 in: Israel Law Review 40.