On 18 December 2025,
Prof. Herman Cohen Jehoram
passed away at the age of 92.
From 1969 to 1998, Herman was Professor of Copyright and Industrial Property Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. During those years, he put copyright law firmly on the map in the Netherlands and initiated many generations of University of Amsterdam students into the law of intellectual property.
Herman Cohen Jehoram was quick to recognise the connection between copyright and media and information law, which developed during the 1980s and eventually led to the establishment of the Institute for Information Law in 1986.
For many years, Herman served as chairman of the Dutch Copyright Society (‘Vereniging voor Auteursrecht’, the Dutch chapter of ALAI), which flourished under his leadership. In 1977 he founded the law journal Auteursrecht, of which he remained editor-in-chief until his retirement in 1998.
On his retirement, Kluwer Law International published the collection Intellectual Property and Information Law. Essays in Honour of Herman Cohen Jehoram (edited by Jan Kabel and Gerard Mom).