Kobi Kastiel

Kobi Kastiel is a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, and the Academic Director of the faculty’s Fischer Center for Corporate Governance and the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (Fall 2026), a non-resident Affiliate Fellow at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). In 2023–2024, he was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Scholar-in-Residence at NYU School of Law, and from 2018 to 2022, he served as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Kastiel earned his S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics in all years of study, served as Research Director at the Program on Corporate Governance, and was awarded the John M. Olin Prize in Law & Economics and the Victor Brudney Prize in Corporate Governance. He also holds an LL.B. degree (magna cum laude) and a B.A. degree in Economics from Tel Aviv University. Prior to joining academia, he practiced for four years at a top New York law firm and clerked on the Supreme Court of Israel.

Kastiel teaches and conducts research in the fields of corporate law and corporate governance, with a particular focus on public companies with controlling shareholders, shareholder activism, stakeholder governance, shareholder litigation, and private equity funds. He has published over 30 articles in leading U.S. law journals and is the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships, including, most recently, the Zeltner Prize for an outstanding young legal scholar in Israel and the TAU Provost Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching. Four of his recent articles have been voted by business law professors as among the top ten corporate and securities law articles of the year, and he was recently ranked among the 100 most-cited legal scholars based on citations to articles published during a recent three-year period.

Professor Kastiel’s work is available for download on his SSRN webpage.