Prof. Ariel Porat is incoming Tel Aviv University President

Written on |

The TAU Board of Governors ratified the presidency of Porat, a TAU alumnus, law professor and EMET Prize laureate

Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Ariel Porat served as an officer in the “8200” IDF Intelligence Corps unit for 5 years. He subsequently enrolled in law studies at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann Faculty of Law, where he earned his LLB and direct JSD before performing post-doctoral studies at Yale Law School. His main research areas are torts, contracts, remedies, and law and economics.

He joined Tel Aviv University as a faculty member in 1990. From 2002 to 2006, he served as Dean of the Buchmann Faculty of Law, where he introduced a number of joint LLM programs and student exchange programs with leading schools abroad, and from 2013 to 2014 he chaired the University Strategic Steering Committee tasked with the academic restructuring of the University.

Driven by a deep sense of social responsibility, Porat conceived and launched a pioneering admittance program at TAU for students from Israel’s geographic and social periphery, and was additionally involved in other initiatives intended to widen the circle of educational opportunity for underrepresented groups in Israel.

Porat is Alain Poher Professor of Law at TAU and Associate Member and Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Toronto and the University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a former board member of the American Law and Economics Association and a former president of the Israeli Law and Economics Association. From 1997 to 2002, he was the Director of TAU’s Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law. He is the founder of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law and was its editor-in-chief in the years 1999-2003.

Porat is the author of four books and more than 90 articles published by the world’s leading academic presses and scholarly journals.

Photo: Yehonatan Zur

Related posts

Declaration of the Tel Aviv University Senate Regarding the Violation of Israeli Democracy

7 March 2023

Travelling exhibition displayed for the first time in Israel

24 February 2023

Dan David Prize Announces 2023 Winners

23 February 2023

Love Blossoms at Tel Aviv University

14 February 2023

Are You an Entrepreneur at Heart?

9 February 2023

Prof. Karen Avraham Wins Prestigious FISEB STAR Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership

1 February 2023

Thousands Take Part in Tel Aviv University’s Open Day

31 January 2023

Holocaust Education is Expanding in Africa, the Arab World, and Eastern Europe

26 January 2023

Coller School of Management Among World’s Top 100 Business Schools

17 January 2023

New National Research Center at Tel Aviv University

10 January 2023

Tel Aviv University Establishes Multidisciplinary Center for Research of Autoimmune Diseases

18 December 2022

Sir Frank Lowy Donates $18M USD to Tel Aviv University’s International School

12 December 2022

Surprising the Pope with The Artwork ‘Jesus from the Soil of the Holy Land’

5 December 2022

TAU Ready for Climate Action

9 November 2022

TAU 7th in World for Entrepreneurship

2 November 2022

20 Mayors Begin TAU’s World-class Training Program

2 November 2022

Victoria

Tok Corporate Centre, Level 1,
459 Toorak Road, Toorak VIC 3142
Phone: +61 3 9296 2065
Email: office@aftau.asn.au

New South Wales

Level 22, Westfield Tower 2, 101 Grafton Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Phone: +61 418 465 556
Email: davidsolomon@aftau.org.au

Western Australia

P O Box 36, Claremont,
WA  6010
Phone: :+61 411 223 550
Email: clivedonner@thelinqgroup.com