Ariel Porat

Ariel Porat
אריאל פורת
Born	(1956-11-01) November 1, 1956 (age 67) Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University Yale University
Employer	Tel Aviv University
Title	President
Awards	The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture

Ariel Porat (Hebrew: ‎אריאל פורת; born November 1, 1956, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is the president of Tel Aviv University (TAU), a full professor and former dean at TAU's Buchmann Faculty of Law. Until his appointment as president, he was a distinguished visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, incumbent of the Alain Poher Chair in Private Law at TAU, and recipient of The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture for Legal Research.