Daniel Friedmann

Justice Minister

(Born 1936)

Prof. Friedmann was the Dean of Tel-Aviv University Law Faculty in 1974-78. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University Law School; the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Queen Mary College - the University of London, and Fordham University Law School.

He was a member, of the Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the President of the Supreme Court to investigate price regulation of bank shares. He has also been a member of a number of Legislative Advisory Committees, and is presently a member of the Advisory Committee, appointed by the Minister of Justice for the Codification of Civil Law in Israel.

Professor Friedmann participated in the establishment of the Cegla Institute for Comparative and Private International Law at Tel Aviv University, and was its first director. He also participated in establishing the Law School of the College of Management and was its first Dean.

Prof. Friedmann is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, member of the American Law Institute and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

He is also an Adviser to the Restatement of the Law of Restitution.

His awards include the Zeltner Prize, Sussman Prize, Minkoff Prize and the prestigious Israel Prize.

On the 6th February 2007, Freidmann was named Justice Minister, replacing Chaim Ramon.

(Source: The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University)