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Moshe Cohen-Eliya

b. 1967

Israeli attorney and law professor

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Born 1967. Moshe Cohen-Eliya is an Israeli lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, university teacher and jurist.

Moshe Cohen-Eliya (; born 1967) is an Israeli attorney and a professor of constitutional law at the College of Law and Business.

As an attorney for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, he drafted the bill, "Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law, 2000" and represented the petitioners in the High Court of Justice case 6055/95, Sagi Zemach v. the Minister of Defense.

Biography Moshe Cohen-Eliya was born in Haifa, Israel in 1967. His parents were of Iraqi-Jewish and Syrian-Jewish descent. (according to its impact factor) and in 2013 founded the "Israel Junior Faculty Workshop". Cohen- Eliya also sat for the selection committee of the Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum. On 2015 he founded in Israel the first local branch of ICON-S (International Constitutional Law Society).

He was the Dean of the law school at the College of Law and Business 2010-2015 and its President 2014–2022. He lives in Kiryat Tiv'on.

Selected publications Proportionality and Constitutional Culture, (Cambridge University Press, 2013) (with I. Porat). Proportionality and Justification, (Toronto Law Journal, 2014) (with I. Porat). Judicial Minimalism and the Double Effect of Rules and Standard, (26 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 283, 2012) (with I. Porat). Proportionality and the Culture of Justification, (59(2) American Journal of Comparative Law, 2010) (with I. Porat). American Balancing and German Proportionality: The Historical Origins, (8 I-CON International Journal of Constitutional Law 263, 2010) (with I. Porat). The Hidden Foreign Law Debate in Heller: Proportionality Approach in American Constitutional Law, (45 San Diego Law Review 367, 2009) (with I. Porat). Probability Thresholds as Deontological Constraints in Global Constitutionalism, (49 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 75, 2011) (with G. Stopler). Discrimination against Arabs in Israel in Public Accommodations, (36 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 717, 2004). Advertisements, Stereotypes and Freedom of Expression, (35 Journal of Social Philosophy 165, 2004) (with Y. Hammer).

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Who is Moshe Cohen-Eliya?

Israeli attorney and law professor

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Moshe Cohen-Eliya was born on 10 May 1967.

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Moshe Cohen-Eliya is a lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, university teacher and jurist.

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Moshe Cohen-Eliya is Israeli.

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