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…

Exam Type: In Class The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions, excuse of performance, and remedies for breach, is…

Exam Type: In Class The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions, excuse of performance, and remedies for breach, is…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…

Exam Type: In Class The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions, excuse of performance, and remedies for breach, is…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…

Exam Type: In Class The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions, excuse of performance, and remedies for breach, is…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The law aims to control, guide, or facilitate many aspects of human behavior. To achieve these goals legal policymakers…

Oren Bar-Gill, Smart Disclosure: Promise and Perils, 5 Behav. Pub. Pol’y 238 (2021).

Oren Bar-Gill, Smart Disclosure: Promise and Perils, Behavioural Public Policy (August 2019).

Oren Bar-Gill & Alma Cohen, How to Communicate the Nudge: A Real-World Policy Experiment, 65 J. L. & Econ. 607 (2022).

Oren Bar-Gill, Contrato de préstamo hipotecario: derecho, economía y psicología in Presente y Futuro del Mercado Hipotecario Español: un Análisis Económico y Jurídico 129 (Juan…

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Manipulation by Mislaid Priorities (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1063, 2021).

Oren Bar-Gill & Andrew T. Hayashi, Present Bias and Debt-Financed Durable Goods (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1055, Va. L.

Oren Bar-Gill, Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Ethics: Beyond the Common Acronym: A Comment on Feldman’s “The Law of Good People”, 22 Jerusalem Rev. Legal Stud.

Oren Bar-Gill, Willingness-to-Pay: A Welfarist Reassessment 38 Yale J. on Reg. 503 (2021).

Oren Bar-Gill, Price Discrimination with Consumer Misperception, Applied Econ. Letters (June 22, 2020).

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules, 88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 531 (2021).

Oren Bar-Gill, Choice Theory and the Economic Analysis of Contracts: Comments on Dagan and Heller’s, The Choice Theory of Contracts, 20 Jerusalem Rev. Legal Stud.

Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, Property is Dummy Proof: An Experiment (MPI Collective Goods Discussion Paper, No. 2020/2, Jan. 24, 2020).

Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar & Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, The American Law Institute’s Restatement of Consumer Contracts: Reporters’ Introduction, 15 Eur. Rev. Contract L. 91 (2019).

Oren Bar-Gill & Clayton P. Gillette, On the Optimal Number of Contract Types, 20 Theoretical Inquiries L. 487 (2019).

Oren Bar-Gill, Consumer Misperception in a Hotelling Model: With and Without Price Discrimination, 176 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 180 (2020).

Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment, 61 J.L. & Econ. 525 (2018).

Oren Bar-Gill, Algorithmic Price Discrimination: When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)Perceptions, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 217 (2019).

Oren Bar-Gill & Nicola Persico, Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1019 (2019).

Oren Bar-Gill & Ariel Porat, Disclosure Rules in Contract Law, 49 J. Legal Stud. 103 (2020).

Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar & Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts, 84 U. Chi. L.

Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment, (MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2017/05, Apr. 1, 2017).

Oren Bar-Gill & Richard Epstein, The Behavioral Economics of Consumer Contracts, in Behavioral Law and Economics (Jeffrey J. Rachlinski ed., 2009).

Oren Bar-Gill, Flexible, Responsible Credit-Card Reform (Bloomberg, May 5, 2009, 5:32 PM).

Oren Bar-Gill, The Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Sorting the Critiques, Lombard Street, Sept. 14, 2009, at 4.

Oren Bar-Gill, Argument for a Consumer Finance Protection Agency is Strong, Despite Criticism (The Hill, Nov. 18, 2009, 11:55 PM).

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, 33 Reg., Winter 2010, at 42.

Oren Bar-Gill, Seduction by Contract: Do We Understand the Documents We Sign? (OUPBlog, Aug. 1, 2012).

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Love Your Frequent-Flyer Program? Let It Go (Bloomberg View, June 13, 2014).

Oren Bar-Gill, Information and Paternalism, in Choice Architecture in Democracies, Exploring the Legitimacy of Nudging (Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers, Maximillian Steinbeis & Gerhard Wagner eds.

Oren Bar-Gill, On Phishing and Seduction: Law, Economics and Psychology in Consumer Markets (PolicyShop Blog, Oct. 5, 2015).

Oren Bar-Gill, Mortgage Contracts: Law, Economics and Psychology, in Law and Economics. A Productive Relationship 5 (Juan José Ganuza & Fernando Gómez Pomar, eds., 2019).

Oren Bar-Gill, David Schkade & Cass R. Sunstein, Drawing False Inferences from Mandated Disclosures, 3 Behavioural Pub. Pol’y 209 (2019).

Oren Bar-Gill & Kevin E. Davis, (Mis)perceptions of Law in Consumer Markets, 19 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 245 (2017).

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Optimal Defaults in Consumer Markets, 45 J. Legal Studies S137 (2016).

Shmuel I. Becher & Oren Bar-Gill, הגנת הצרכן (Consumer Protection), in הגישה הכלכלית למשפט (The Economic Approach to Law, Uriel Procaccia ed., 2013).

Oren Bar-Gill & Nicola Persico, Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights, 8 Am. Econ. J.: Microeconomics, no. 4, Nov. 2016, at 230.

Oren Bar-Gill, Bundling and Consumer Misconception, Symposium: Homo Economicus, Homo Myopicus, and the Law and Economics of Consumer Choice, 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 33…

Oren Bar-Gill & Kevin Davis, Empty Promises, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2010).

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Threatening an ‘Irrational’ Breach of Contract, in Recent Developments in Law and Economics (Robert D. Cooter & Francesco Parisi eds.,…