Omri Ben-Shahar
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Omri Ben-Shahar (Hebrew: עומרי בן-שחר; born 1962) is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, and Kearney Director and founder of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to his tenure at University of Chicago in 2008, Ben-Shahar was the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Michigan, and was the founder and director of the Olin Center for Law and Economics from 1999 to 2008.{{cite web |url=https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/ben-shahar|title=Omri Ben-Shahar |website=University of Chicago Law School|date=22 May 2009 }}
Ben-Shahar is an expert in contracts, sales, trademark law, insurance law, consumer law, e-commerce, food law, law and economics, and game theory and the law. He writes primarily in the fields of contract law and consumer protection. One of the prominent pioneers of big data and law, his current research involves the use of big data in regulatory and market solutions to social and jurisprudential problems.{{Cite web |title=Could personalizing laws make society more just? with Omri Ben-Shahar: Big Brains podcast {{!}} University of Chicago News |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/could-personalizing-laws-make-society-more-just-omri-ben-shahar |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=news.uchicago.edu |language=en}} Ben-Shahar is the most cited active scholar of commercial law in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Brian Leiter's Law School Reports |url=https://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/08/10-most-cited-commercial-law-scholars-in-the-us-2016-2020.html |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=leiterlawschool.typepad.com}}
Education and career
Ben-Shahar earned a BA and LLB in 1990 from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his PhD in economics and SJD (in law) from Harvard in 1995. He was an assistant professor of law and economics at Tel-Aviv University from 1995, until he moved to the University of Michigan in 1999. In 2008, Ben-Shahar began teaching at the University of Chicago. Ben-Shahar is also the co-reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Consumer Contracts. Ben-Shahar has published dozens of journal articles, and writes a biweekly OpEd at Forbes.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribenshahar/#53e0f1a276fe|title=Omri Ben-Shahar|first=Omri|last=Ben-Shahar|website=Forbes}} He is a co-author (with Carl E. Schneider) of the book, More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure (Princeton 2014).{{cite journal|url=http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/books/689/|title=More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure|journal=Books|first1=Ben-Shahar|last1=Omri|first2=Schneider, Carl|last2=E.|date=12 December 2017}} Together with Ariel Porat he wrote Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People (Oxford 2021).{{Cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/personalized-law-9780197522813?cc=us&lang=en& |title=Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People |date=2021-05-31 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-752281-3 |location=Oxford, New York}}
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Further reading
- {{cite journal |last=Collins |first=David |date=January 2009 |title=Reviewed Work: Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts by Omri Ben-Shahar |journal=The Modern Law Review |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=130–132 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2230.2009.00738.x |jstor=20533228}}
- {{cite journal |last=Kastner |first=Tal |date=Summer 2010 |title=Review: The Persisting Ideal of Agreement in an Age of Boilerplate |journal=Law & Social Inquiry |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=793–823 |jstor=40783690|doi=10.1111/j.1747-4469.2010.01202.x |s2cid=142774781 }}
- {{cite magazine |last=Coy |first=Peter |date=19 May 2014 |title=Admit It, You Didn't Read A Word Of This |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-15/the-limits-of-mandatory-disclosure-laws |magazine=Bloomberg Businessweek |pages=25–27}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Hubbard |first1=William H. J. |last2=Morrison |first2=Edward R. |date=January 2017 |title=Tribute to Omri Ben-Shahar |journal=The Journal of Legal Studies |volume=46 |issue=1 |page=iii |doi=10.1086/692334}}
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