S.J.D. Candidate
tzur at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Résumé
Dissertation
Temporal Dynamics in Judicial Decision-Making
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Empirical studies of criminal law and procedure with Professor Crystal Yang, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Behavioral law and economics with Professor Oren Bar-Gill, Harvard Law School
- Judicial decision-making with Professor Holger Spamann, Harvard Law School
- Economic theory of litigation and judicial decision-making with Professor Kathryn Spier, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Behavioral Economics
- Law Enforcement and Criminal Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2022-Present
- Hebrew University School of Economics, Ph.D. Candidate, 2024-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2022 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics, B.A. Magna cum Laude, 2023
- Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, LL.B. Magna cum Laude, 2020
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, Harvard Law School, 2022-present
- Graduate Fellow at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science
- Graduate Fellow at the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University
Publications and Works in Progress
- When the Law of Small Numbers Meets the Law: A Theory of Judicial Quotas in Pre-Trial Detention Hearings (work in progress)
- Early Isn’t Always Better: Experimental Evidence on the Deterrent Effect of Delayed Enforcement (under review)
- Decision Cascades (under review) (with Adi Leibovitch)
- How do People Learn from Not Being Caught? An Experimental Investigation of a “Non-Occurrence Bias” (under review) (awarded the Göran Skogh Award by the European Association of Law and Economics and the Harvard Law School John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics)
- LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models, 36 NeurIPS Proceedings (2024) (with Neel Guha et al.)
- A Theory of Remedies for Loss of Future Earnings in the Presence of Wage Disparities, 46 Tel Aviv U. L. Rev. 289 (Iyuney Mishpat) (2022) (with Omer Y. Peled) (Hebrew)
Last Updated: March 28, 2025