Ehud Guttel is the Bora Laskin Professor of Law at Hebrew University Law School and a member of the university’s Center for the Study of Rationality. He specializes in torts and remedies.
His scholarship has appeared, among other places, in the University of Chicago Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Washington University Law Review, as well as in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
Professor Guttel graduated from Hebrew University and Yale Law School and clerked for Justice Mishael Cheshin of the Supreme Court of Israel. He is the recipient of several awards for excellence in research and teaching.
Education
LL.M, Yale University, 1999
Representative publications
“Anti-Patents” (with R. Bahard and S. Benjamin), University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming, 2024).
“Unenforceable Waivers” ” (with E. Cheng and Y. Procaccia), Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming, 2023).
"Sequencing in Damages” (with E. Cheng and Y. Procaccia), 74 Stanford Law Review 353 (2022).
“Shared Liability and Excessive Care” (with Y. Procaccia & E. Winter), 37 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 358 (2021).
“Tort Liability and the Risk of Discriminatory Government” (with A. Porat), 87 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2020).
"Bargaining around Cost-Benefit Standards" (with S. Leshem), 103 Journal of Public Economics 55 (2013).
"Buying the Right to Harm" (with S. Leshem), 86 S. California Law Review 1195 (2013).
"Negligence, Strict Liability and Collective Action" (wth D. Gilo & E. Yuval), 42 Journal of Legal Studies 69-82 (2013).
"Criminal Sanctions in the Defense of the Innocent" (with D. Teichman) 110 Michigan Law Review 597 (2012).
"Negligence and Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm in Torts" (with D. Gilo) 108 Michigan Law Review 277 (2009).
"The (Hidden) Risk of Opportunistic Precautions” 93 Virginia Law Review 1389 (2007).
"Overcorrection" 93 Georgetown Law Journal 241 (2004).