Oren Bar-Gill

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); Misprioritized Information: A Theory of Manipulation (with Omri Ben-Shahar), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Studies (2023); Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets (with Cass Sunstein and Inbal Talgam-Cohen), which appeared in the Journal of Legal Analysis (2023); How to Communicate the Nudge: A Real-World Policy Experiment (with Alma Cohen), which appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics (2022); 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 served (together with Omri Ben-Shahar and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler) as Reporter for the Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts. Bar-Gill also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Legal Analysis.