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Oren Bar-Gill

Faculty Associate

Oren Bar-Gill’s scholarship focuses on the law and economics of contracts and contracting.

His publications include: SEDUCTION BY CONTRACT: LAW, ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY IN CONSUMER MARKETS (Oxford University Press, 2012); Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules (with Omri Ben-Shahar), which appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review (2021); Disclosure Rules in Contract Law (with Ariel Porat), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies (2020); Algorithmic Price Discrimination: When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)perceptions, which appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review (2019); “Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights” (with Nicola Persico), which was published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2016); “Product Use Information and the Limits of Voluntary Disclosure” (with Oliver Board), which appeared in the American Law and Economics Review (2012); “Consent and Exchange” (with Lucian Bebchuk), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies (2010); “The Law, Economics, and Psychology of Subprime Mortgage Contracts,” which appeared in the Cornell Law Review (2009); “The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma” (with Omri Ben-Shahar), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Analysis (2009); “Making Credit Safer” (with Elizabeth Warren), which appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2008); “Bundling and Consumer Misperception,” which appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review (2006); “Credible Coercion” (with Omri Ben-Shahar), which appeared in the Texas Law Review (2005); “Seduction by Plastic,” which appeared in the Northwestern University Law Review (2004); and “The Law of Duress and the Economics of Credible Threats” (with Omri Ben-Shahar), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies (2004).

Bar-Gill joined Harvard Law School in July 2014 from New York University School of Law, where he was the Evelyn and Harold Meltzer Professor of Law and Economics. Bar-Gill holds a B.A. (economics), LL.B., M.A. (law & economics) and Ph.D. (economics) from Tel-Aviv University, as well as an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Bar-Gill is the recipient of the American Law Institute’s Young Scholars Medal (in 2011), and of the American Law and Economics Review’s Best Paper Prize (2017). He serves (together with Omri Ben-Shahar and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler) as Reporter for the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. Bar-Gill serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Analysis.


Projects & Tools

Artificial Intelligence and the Law

This initiative focuses on new challenges and opportunities for the law created by the rise of AI.


Community

Journal of Legal Analysis

Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets

BKC Faculty Associate Oren Bar-Gill and co-director of Artificial Intelligence and Law Project Cass R. Sunstein, co-write with Inbal Talgam-Cohen on addressing the potential harms…

Aug 21, 2023
The Crimson

Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center Announce New AI and the Law Initiative

Harvard Law School and BKC announce a new initiative on AI and the law which will be directed by Harvard Law Professors Oren Bar-Gill and Cass R. Sunstein.

Jul 26, 2023

Events

Oct 17, 2023 @ 12:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Lightning Talks with Experts

Join us for a series of lightning talks to kick off of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law...