10 Facts About Ariel Porat

Ariel Porat is the president of Tel Aviv University, a full professor and former dean at TAU's Buchmann Faculty of Law.

Ariel Porat 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.

Ariel Porat's father, Haim Porat, served as VP of the District Court of Tel Aviv, and his mother, Adina Porat, was a judge at the National Labor Court.

Ariel Porat specializes in torts, contracts and economic analysis of the law, and is the incumbent of the Alain Poher Chair in Private Law.

From 2003 until his nomination as president of TAU in 2019, Ariel Porat was Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, with additional visiting professor positions at Stanford, NYU, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Toronto.

Ariel Porat is a member of the American Law Institute, former President of the Israeli Law and Economics Association, and former Board member of the American Law and Economics Association.

Ariel Porat founded and edited Theoretical Inquiries in Law, an international law journal ranked second in the world in the area of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory by Washington and Lee Law Journal Rankings.

In 2013 Ariel Porat was appointed head of TAU's Strategic Steering Committee, tasked with examining possible changes in the university's academic structure and management.

In June 2014, Ariel Porat was elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

In May 2019, Ariel Porat was elected 9th President of Tel Aviv University, succeeding Joseph Klafter.