Prof. Ehud Guttel

Ehud Guttel
Prof.
Ehud
Guttel
Bora Laskin Chair in Law

Ehud Guttel is the Bora Laskin Professor of Law, and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality. He specializes in tort law, law and economics, and criminal law. Professor Guttel is a graduate of Hebrew University and Yale Law School, and the recipient of several awards for excellence in research and teaching. He is also the founder (together with Yehonatan Givati) of the Aumann-Fischer Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy (to open in 2022).

 

Education

LL.B, Hebrew University, 1997
LL.M, Yale University, 1999
J.S.D, Yale University, 2002

  

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).