Instructors
Oren Bar-Gill
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Oren Bar-Gill
February 4, 2023
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…
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Contracts 5
January 25, 2023
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…
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Contracts 4
January 19, 2023
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…
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Contracts 4
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…
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Contracts 6
January 18, 2023
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…
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Contracts 6
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…
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Contracts 5
January 18, 2023
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…
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Law, Economics and Psychology: Selected Topics
January 18, 2023
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…
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Smart disclosure: promise and perils
December 20, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Smart Disclosure: Promise and Perils, 5 Behav. Pub. Pol’y 238 (2021).
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Smart Disclosure: Promise and Perils
December 20, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Smart Disclosure: Promise and Perils, Behavioural Public Policy (August 2019).
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How to Communicate the Nudge: A Real-World Policy Experiment
December 14, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Alma Cohen, How to Communicate the Nudge: A Real-World Policy Experiment, 65 J. L. & Econ. 607 (2022).
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Contrato de préstamo hipotecario: derecho, economía y psicología
October 19, 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…
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Manipulation by Mislaid Priorities
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Manipulation by Mislaid Priorities (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1063, 2021).
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Present Bias and Debt financed durable goods
October 19, 2022
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.
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Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Ethics: Beyond the Common Acronym: A Comment on Feldman’s “The Law of Good People”
October 19, 2022
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.
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Willingness-to-Pay: A Welfarist Reassessment
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Willingness-to-Pay: A Welfarist Reassessment 38 Yale J. on Reg. 503 (2021).
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Price Discrimination with Consumer Misperception
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Price Discrimination with Consumer Misperception, Applied Econ. Letters (June 22, 2020).
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Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Rethinking Nudge: An Information-Costs Theory of Default Rules, 88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 531 (2021).
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Choice Theory and the Economic Analysis of Contracts: Comments on Dagan and Heller’s, The Choice Theory of Contracts
October 19, 2022
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.
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Property is Dummy Proof: An Experiment
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, Property is Dummy Proof: An Experiment (MPI Collective Goods Discussion Paper, No. 2020/2, Jan. 24, 2020).
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The American Law Institute’s Restatement of Consumer Contracts: Reporters’ Introduction
October 19, 2022
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).
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On the Optimal Number of Contract Types
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Clayton P. Gillette, On the Optimal Number of Contract Types, 20 Theoretical Inquiries L. 487 (2019).
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Oren Bar-Gill, Consumer Misperception in a Hotelling Model: With and Without Price Discrimination, 176 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 180 (2020).
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How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment, 61 J.L. & Econ. 525 (2018).
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Algorithmic Price Discrimination: When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)Perceptions
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Algorithmic Price Discrimination: When Demand Is a Function of Both Preferences and (Mis)Perceptions, 86 U. Chi. L. Rev. 217 (2019).
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Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Nicola Persico, Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property, 94 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1019 (2019).
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Disclosure Rules in Contract Law
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Ariel Porat, Disclosure Rules in Contract Law, 49 J. Legal Stud. 103 (2020).
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Searching for the Common Law: The Quantitative Approach of the Restatement of Consumer Contracts
October 19, 2022
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.
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How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Christoph Engel, How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment, (MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2017/05, Apr. 1, 2017).
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The Behavioral Economics of Consumer Contracts
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Richard Epstein, The Behavioral Economics of Consumer Contracts, in Behavioral Law and Economics (Jeffrey J. Rachlinski ed., 2009).
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Flexible, Responsible Credit-Card Reform
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Flexible, Responsible Credit-Card Reform (Bloomberg, May 5, 2009, 5:32 PM).
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The Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Sorting the Critiques
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, The Consumer Financial Protection Agency: Sorting the Critiques, Lombard Street, Sept. 14, 2009, at 4.
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Oren Bar-Gill, Argument for a Consumer Finance Protection Agency is Strong, Despite Criticism (The Hill, Nov. 18, 2009, 11:55 PM).
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The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, 33 Reg., Winter 2010, at 42.
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Seduction by Contract: Do We Understand the Documents We Sign?
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, Seduction by Contract: Do We Understand the Documents We Sign? (OUPBlog, Aug. 1, 2012).
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Love Your Frequent-Flyer Program? Let It Go
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Love Your Frequent-Flyer Program? Let It Go (Bloomberg View, June 13, 2014).
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Information and Paternalism
October 19, 2022
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.
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Oren Bar-Gill, On Phishing and Seduction: Law, Economics and Psychology in Consumer Markets (PolicyShop Blog, Oct. 5, 2015).
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Mortgage Contracts: Law, Economics and Psychology
October 19, 2022
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).
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Drawing False Inferences from Mandated Disclosures
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill, David Schkade & Cass R. Sunstein, Drawing False Inferences from Mandated Disclosures, 3 Behavioural Pub. Pol’y 209 (2019).
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(Mis)perceptions of Law in Consumer Markets
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Kevin E. Davis, (Mis)perceptions of Law in Consumer Markets, 19 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 245 (2017).
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Optimal Defaults in Consumer Markets
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, Optimal Defaults in Consumer Markets, 45 J. Legal Studies S137 (2016).
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הגנת הצרכן (Consumer Protection)
October 19, 2022
Shmuel I. Becher & Oren Bar-Gill, הגנת הצרכן (Consumer Protection), in הגישה הכלכלית למשפט (The Economic Approach to Law, Uriel Procaccia ed., 2013).
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Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Nicola Persico, Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights, 8 Am. Econ. J.: Microeconomics, no. 4, Nov. 2016, at 230.
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Bundling and Consumer Misconception
October 19, 2022
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…
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Empty Promises
October 19, 2022
Oren Bar-Gill & Kevin Davis, Empty Promises, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2010).
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Threatening an ‘Irrational’ Breach of Contract
October 19, 2022
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.,…