Haggai Porat

Haggai Porat
S.J.D. Candidate
hporat at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Résumé

Dissertation

Essays on Consumer Law and the Regulation of Consumer Algorithms

Fields of Research and Supervisors

  • Consumer Law with Professor Oren Bar-Gill, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
  • Economic Analysis of Law with Professor Louis Kaplow, Harvard Law School
  • Empirical Legal Studies with Professor Alma Cohen, Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv School of Economics

Additional Research Interests

  • Consumer Law
  • Law and Algorithms (“A.I.”)
  • Empirical Legal Studies
  • Judicial Decision Making

Education

  • Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2020–Present
  • Tel Aviv University School of Economics, Ph.D. Candidate, 2020–Present
  • Tel Aviv University School of Economics, M.A. Magna Cum Laude, 2020
  • Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2020 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
  • Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, LL.B. Summa Cum Laude, 2016
  • Tel Aviv University School of Economics, B.A. Summa Cum Laude, 2016

Academic Appointments and Fellowships

  • Ari J. Zweiman Fellow in Law and Economics, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center, 2022-2023
  • Fellow in Law and Economics, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center, 2021-2022

Publications and Works in Progress

  • “Do Judges Mislead Litigants to Persuade them to Settle? A Bayesian Persuasion Approach to Judge-Brokered Settlements” (work in progress) (with Zvika Neeman)
  • “Behavior-Based Price Discrimination and Consumer Protection in the Age of Algorithms” (under review) (awarded the Harvard Law School John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics)
  • “Are All Types of Discrimination Created Equal?” 47 Law & Psychology Review (forthcoming, 2023) (with Yuval Feldman & Tamar Kricheli-Katz)
  • “Those Who Tan and Those Who Don’t: A Natural Experiment on Colorism” 15 PLoS ONE 1 (2020) (with Ronen Avraham, Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Shay Lavie & Tali Regev)
  • “Labor Market Discrimination in Israel – A Differentiating Approach” The Israel Democracy Institute (2018) (with Yuval Feldman, Ron Hermon & Tamar Kricheli-Katz) (Hebrew)

Last Updated: August 15th, 2022