Adi Leibovitch is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and ETH Zurich, and a visiting researcher at NYU, UCLA, and the University of Michigan.

Before starting to teach, Leibovitch was an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. She received her LL.M. and J.S.D from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a John M. Olin Scholar at the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, and a Russell Baker Scholar. She also earned her LL.B. and M.B.A, both magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her M.A. summa cum laude in public policy, mediation and conflict resolution from Tel-Aviv University.

Leibovitch's research integrates economic analysis, behavioral theory, and empirical methods to examine institutional design in courts, litigation, and legal decision-making, with a particular focus on the criminal justice system. Her work has been published in leading journals and has received recognition through awards and grants, including from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Israel Science Foundation. She is the recipient of the 2021 Ellis and Alma Birk Prize in Law.

Leibovitch teaches Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, and Law and Economics. In 2020 and 2022 she was recognized as one of the best professors university-wide.

 

Education

J.S.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2016.
LL.M., University of Chicago Law School, 2011.
M.A., Tel-Aviv University, School of Public Policy, 2009.
M.B.A., Hebrew University, School of Business Administration, 2007.
LL.B., Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, 2005.

 

Representative Publications

Leibovitch, Adi, and Alexander Stremitzer, Aspirational Rules, 51(2) Journal of Legal Studies427 (2022)

Leibovitch, Adi, Institutional Design and the Psychology of the Trial Judge, in Bartosz Brozek, Jaap Hage, and Nicole A. Vincent (Eds.), Law and Mind: A Survey of Law and the Cognitive Sciences, pp. 193–206 (Cambridge University Press) (2021)

Leibovitch, Adi, and Alexander Stremitzer, Experimental Methods in Constitutional Law, University of Chicago Law Review Online (2021)

Leibovitch, Adi, Punishing on a Curve, 111(5) Northwestern University Law Review 1205 (2017).

Leibovitch, Adi, Relative Judgments, 45(2) Journal of Legal Studies 281 (2016).