Avinoam Cohen is a lecturer at the Striks Faculty of Law at the College of Management, Israel. His research studies interplays of law, institutions and social policy, particularly in the contexts of migration governance and regulation, welfare, and human rights litigation.

Avinoam holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law and LLB (cum laude) in Law and History from the Hebrew University. At the College of Management, he led the Concord International Law and Human Rights Clinic (2005 – 2020) and headed the Interdisciplinary Laureate Program of the College (2017 – 2021). He was an attorney at J. Weinroth & Co., Clerked for Hon. Mishael Cheshin at the Israeli Supreme Court, and was a dynamic group facilitator at the education department of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

Currently, Avinoam directs the excellence programs at the Faculty of Law and teaches and instructs a variety of courses, seminars and research workshops in the fields of Legal Methods and Research, Human Rights and Public International Law. In addition, he instructs the MA research colloquium of the MUSA program, and is a core faculty of the Global Migration and Policy MA program at TAU, teaching comparative migration and citizenship regimes.