1. Gabriela Shalev was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 2008 to 2010.
24 Facts About Gabriela Shalev
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Gabriela Shalev was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School from 1975 to 1976.
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Gabriela Shalev was admitted to the Israeli Bar in 1968.
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Gabriela Shalev was Chief Legal Editor of the Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1968 to 1980, and Chief Legal Advisor for the reform in national health services in 1991.
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Gabriela Shalev was a legal advisor, arbitrator, and expert, in Israel and abroad, on litigation matters concerning national and international transactions.
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Gabriela Shalev became a teacher and member of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in 1964.
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Gabriela Shalev became a full professor of contract law at the Hebrew University in 1986.
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Gabriela Shalev was a visiting professor at Temple Law School, Philadelphia, in 1975, Boston College School of Law in 1976 and 1981, Tulane Law School in 1988, University of Glasgow School of Law in 1991, the University of Toronto in 1993, Leuven University in 1996, and University of Fribourg in 1998.
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Gabriela Shalev was director of the Harry Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law from 1981 to 1984, and a member of the Standard Contracts Tribunal, starting 1983.
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Gabriela Shalev was a member of the Codification in Civil Law Committee from 1984 to 2006, and a legal editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia's new edition in 1984.
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Gabriela Shalev was an advisor on the status of women at the Hebrew University from 1988 to 1990, and became a member of the Committee for Legal Terminology at the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Israel in 1990.
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Gabriela Shalev was chairperson of the academic nomination committee of the Hebrew University from 1991 to 1994, and appointed chairperson of the Fund for Promotion of Law at the Israeli Ministry of Justice from 1991 to 2000.
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Gabriela Shalev was a member of A Statutory Committee for recognition of law schools from 1991 to 1995.
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Gabriela Shalev was an academic advisor of the College of Insurance from 1993 to 1998, and chairperson of the Israeli Academic Committee at the University of Manchester from 1995 to 2002.
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Gabriela Shalev was a member of the Academic Committee at the Open University from 2001 to 2004.
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Gabriela Shalev became the Academic President of the Ono Academic College in 2002.
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Gabriela Shalev is regarded as a leading expert in Israel in the fields of contract law and procurement contracts, for which she has provided legal advice and crafted legal opinions, both domestically and abroad.
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Gabriela Shalev has written nine books and more than 100 articles in Hebrew and in English, mostly within contract law.
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Gabriela Shalev's books are used in law schools and law offices in Israel.
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Gabriela Shalev won the Sussman's Prize in Law in 1989, became The first incumbent of the Hebrew University's Lawrence D Biele Chair in Contract Law in 1990, and won the Zeltner's Prize in Law in 1991.
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Gabriela Shalev won the Israel Bar Association prize in 2003.
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On June 24,2008, Gabriela Shalev was nominated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations, replacing Dan Gillerman.
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Gabriela Shalev said that: "as a woman, a professor and above all as a proud Israeli, I am happy for the opportunity given me to contribute to the state in the complex international arena of the United Nations".
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Gabriela Shalev was Israel's Ambassador to the UN until October 2010.