Department of Economics, University of Michigan


Omri Ben-Shahar Professor of Economics U of M Affiliation(s) Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law Contact Information University of Michigan Law School 900 Legal Research Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215 Phone: 734-763-4608 Fax: 734-764-8309 Email: omri@umich.edu

About Omri Ben-Shahar Omri Ben-Shahar, whose research focuses on the intersection of law and economics, joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty fulltime in September 1999. Since then, he founded and has been named director of the Olin Center for Law and Economics. He previously taught as a professor of law and economics at Tel-Aviv University, was a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, served as a panel member of Israel's Antitrust Court, and clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel. Ben-Shahar teaches two courses — Contracts and Economic Analysis of Law, and designed and teaches the new interdisciplinary course Analytical Methods for Lawyers. He also coordinates the Law and Economics Workshop. He holds a B.A. in economics and LL.B. from Hebrew University, and an LL.M., S.J.D., and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, where he was a Fullbright Fellow and an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Ben-Shahar writes in the field of contract law and has been published in many journals, among them the Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Legal Studies, American Law and Economics Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He is a frequent presenter at annual meetings of the American Law and Economics Association. Homepage http://www-personal.umich.edu/~omri/ Curriculum Vitae http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Eomri/Vitae.html Publications "Threatening an Irrational Breach of Contract." In The Law and Economics of Irrationality, edited by Parisi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Forthcoming. "The Uneasy Case for Comparative Negligence." O. Bar-Gill, co-author. Am. L. & Economics Rev. 5, no. 2 (2003): 433-69. "Precontractual Reliance." L. A. Bebchuk, co-author. J. Legal Stud. 30, no. 2 (2001): 423-58. "The Secrecy Interest in Contract Law." L. Bernstein, co-author. Yale L.J. 109, no. 8 (2000): 1885-925. "Linking the Visions." Law Quad. Notes 43, no. 3 (2000): 4. "Causation and Forseeability." In Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, edited by B. Bouckaert and G. DeGeest, vol. 2 (Civil Law and Economics): 644-68. Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing, 2000.