Current Position
Professor of Law and Economics
University of Michigan Law School

Director, John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics
University of Michigan

Education
Harvard University, Ph.D in Economics, 1995
Harvard Law School, S.J.D, 1999
Harvard Law School, LL.M, 1991
Hebrew University, B.A (Economics), 1990
Hebrew University, LL.B (Law), 1989

Prior Positions
2001-2002 Founder and President, Israeli Law and Economics Association
1999-2001 Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, University of Michigan
1995-1998 Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, Tel-Aviv University
1995-1998 Research Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
1997-1999 Panel Member, Israeli Antitrust Court
1993-95 Teaching Assistant, Harvard University Department of Economics
1989-90 Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Israel.
1986-88 Parliamentary Assistant, Knesset, Israel.

Published and Forthcoming Articles

• Legal Durability, Forthcoming 1 Review of Law and Economics (Berkeley Electronic Press) (2005)
• The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law, Forthcoming 7 American Law and Economics Review (2005) (with Robert Mikos)
  
• The Law of Duress and the Economics of Credible Threats, 33 Journal of Legal Studies 391 (2004) (with Oren Bar-Gill)
• Contracts without Consent: Exploring a New Basis for Contractual Liability, 152 U.of Pennsylvania Law Review 1829 (2004)
• The Ascent of Liability versus Liability Upon Assent: Addendum, 152 U. of Pennsylvania Law Review 1947 (2004)
  
• Agreeing to Disagree: Filling Gaps in Deliberately Incomplete Contracts, in Symposium on Freedom from Contract, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 389
• Freedom From Contract: Forward, in Symposium on Freedom from Contract, 2004 Wisconsin Law Review 261
  
• Credible Coercion, Forthcoming, Texas Law Review (2004) (with Oren Bar-Gill)
  
• Threatening an "Irrational" Breach of Contract, 11 Supreme Court Economic Review 143 (2003) (with Oren Bar-Gill)
• The Uneasy Case for Comparative Negligence, 5 American Law and Economics Review 433 (2003) (with Oren Bar-Gill)
• Pre Contractual Reliance, 30 Journal of Legal Stud. 423 (2001) (with L. Bebchuk)
• The Secrecy Interest in Contract Law, 109 Yale Law Journal 1885 (2000) (with L. Bernstein).
• Rights Eroding By Past Breach, American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 1, pp. 190-238 (1999).
• The Tentative Case against Flexibility in Commercial Law, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 66, pp. 781-820 (1999).
• The Regulation of the Licencing of Professional Occupations, The Economic Quarterly, Vol. 1998(1), pp. 18-27 (in Hebrew, 1998).
• Should Products Liability Be Based on Hindsight?, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 14, pp. 325-357 (1998).
• Playing Without a Rulebook: Optimal Sanctions When Individual Learn the Penalty Only By Committing the Crime, International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 17, pp. 409-421 (1997).
• Criminal Attempts, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (P. Newman, Ed.,1998).
• Causation and Foreseeability, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Bouckaert and DeGeest, Eds., Elgar Pub., 2000).
• The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: a Victim-Centered Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 145, pp., 299-351 (1996). (with A. Harel)
• "Blaming the Victim": Optimal Incentives for Private Precautions Against Crime, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 11, pp. 434- 455 (1995). (with A. Harel)
• Informed Courts, Uninformed Individual and the Economics of Judicial Hindsight, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 151, pp. 613-630 (1995).

• How Liability Distorts the Incentives of Manufacturers to Recall Products
• An Ex-Ante View of the Battle of the Forms: Inducing Parties to Draft Efficient Terms
• How Sticky Are Contractual Default Rules? (with John Pottow) 
  
• Compensation of Victims of Crime: An Economics Analysis, Mimeo. presented at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting  (New York, 2000) (with Alon Harel).
• Reliance on Non-Enforcement, Mimeo., presented at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting  (Yale, 1999) (with Avery Katz)
• Property Rights in Stolen Goods: An Economic Analysis, presented at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting  (Toronto, 1997)
• Strategic Behavior in Judicial Panels, Discussion Paper No. 107, Harvard Program in Law and Economics (1992).

• Conference on Commercial Law Theory and the CISG, Florence, Itally, 2004, presented "An Ex Ante View of the Battle of the Forms"
  
• Conference on Freedom From Contract, Wisconsin Law School, 2004, presented "Agreeing to Disagree"
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2004, Panel on Contract Law, presented "Agreeing to Disagree"
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2003, Panel on Contract Law, presented "The Credibility of Threats to Breach"
• Confernce on the Law and Economics of Irrationality, George Mason Law School, 2002, presented "Threateining an Irrational Breach of Contract"
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Harvard, 2002, Panel on Contract Law, presented "Against the Meeting of the Minds"
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Harvard, 2002, Panel on Positive Political Theory, presented "A Positive Economic Theory of Legal Durability"
• The Phil Lecture, Waynes State University, Department of Economics, September 2001.
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Georgetown, 2001, Panel on Contract Law, presented Recovery for Probabilistic Benefit
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, NYU, 2000, Panel on Criminal Law, presented Compensation of Victims of Crime
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, NYU 2000, Chair and Organizer, panel on Contracts and Commercial Law
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Yale, 1999, Panel on Contract Law, presented Reliance on Non-Enforcement
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting,  Yale, 1999, Panel on Commercial Law, presented On Compensation and Information
• Symposium on "Formalism Revisited", University of Chicago, 1999, presented The Tentative Case Against Flexibility in Commercial Law
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Berkeley, 1998, Panel on Contract Law, presented Rights Eroding By Past Breach
• Confernce on the Economics of Contract Law, Tel-Aviv, 1998, organizer.
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1997, Panel on Contract Law, presented Pre-contractual Reliance (with L. Bebchuk)
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 1997, Panel on Tort Law, presented Should Products Liability Be Based on Hindsight?
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting,  Toronto, 1997, Panel on Criminal Law, presented Property Rights in Stolen Goods: An Economic Analysis
• European Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 1997, Panel on Criminal Law, presented Property Rights in Stolen Goods.
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1996, Panel on Criminal Law, presented The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: A Victim-Centered Perspective

European Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Haifa, 1996, Panel on Tort Law, presented Should Liability Be Based on Hindsight?

Teaching Experience
    Contract Law
   Law and Economics (Law School and Economics Department)
   Game Theory and the Law