Ariel Porat

Tel Aviv University

President and Alain Poher Professor of Law

Ramat Aviv

Tel Aviv, 69978

Israel

http://english.tau.ac.il/profile/porata

University of Chicago - Law School

Fischel-Neil Distinguished Visiting Professor

1111 E. 60th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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1.

Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data

112 Michigan Law Review 1417 (2014), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 418, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 634
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2014
Ariel Porat and Lior Strahilevitz
Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago Law School
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Default Rules, Disclosure, Personalized Default Rules, Personalized Disclosure, Intestacy, Wills, Contracts, Medical Malpractice, Informed Consent, Guinea Pigs, Big Data, Privacy, Psychology, Five Factor Model, Big Five

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The Restoration Remedy in Private Law

118 Columbia Law Review 1901 (2018), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 819, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 670
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2025
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Unbundling Efficient Breach

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 695, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-57
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi and Ariel Porat
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, MPI for Research on Collective Goods, University of Minnesota - Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Personalizing Mandatory Rules in Contract Law

86 University of Chicago Law Review 255 (2020), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 855, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 680
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2025
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Mandatory Rules, Personalization, Big Data, Consumer Protection

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Disclosure Rules in Contract Law

49 The Journal of Legal Studies 103 (2020) Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 907, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 813, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 17-34, 49 The Journal of Legal Studies 103 (2020)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2025
Oren Bar-Gill and Ariel Porat
Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Asymmetric Information, Information Acquisition, Disclosure Rules, Contracts, Contract Law

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Decreasing Liability Contracts

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Decreasing Liability Contracts

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2004, U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 193, UC Berkeley, Public Law Research Paper No. 134
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 30 May 2015
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Liability, contracts, remedies, damages, incentives, comparative negligence, contributory negligence, cooperation, expectation damages, reliance damages, over-reliance, efficient breach, decoupling, progress payments, construction contracts, diminished liability, negative liability, negative damages, victim's incentives, aggrieved party's incentives, renegotiation, litigation costs, Anti-Insurance

Decreasing Liability Contracts

33 Journal of Legal Studies 157 (2004)
Posted: 11 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University

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Liability, contracts, remedies, damages, incentives, comparative negligence, contributory negligence, cooperation, expectation damages, reliance damages, over-reliance, efficient breach, decoupling, progress payments, construction contracts, diminished liability, negative liability, negative damages

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Personalizing Negligence Law

New York University Law Review, 2016 Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 731
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Sep 2015
Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Unbundling Efficient Breach: An Experiment

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Unbundling Efficient Breach: An Experiment

Forthcoming, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2017), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 785
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2016
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi and Ariel Porat
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, MPI for Research on Collective Goods, University of Minnesota - Law School and Tel Aviv University
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contract damages, efficient breach, motives for breach, Contract-Breach game

Unbundling Efficient Breach: An Experiment

Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1088
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
Maria Bigoni, Stefania Bortolotti, Francesco Parisi and Ariel Porat
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, MPI for Research on Collective Goods, University of Minnesota - Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Contract Damages, Efficient Breach, Motives for Breach, Contract-Breach Game

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The Hidden Roles of Boilerplate and Standard Form Contracts: Strategic Imposition of Transaction Costs, Segmentation of Consumers and Anticompetitive Effects

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, March 2006
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2014
David Gilo and Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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standard form contracts, boilerplate, fine print, transaction costs, segmentation, consumers, cartels, competition, asymmetric information, ethnic discrimination, price discrimination, quantity discounts, tacit collusion, consumer segmentation

10.

The Many Faces of Negligence

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 4, p. 105, 2003
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Feb 2003 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Negligence, proximate cause, duty of care, standard of care, Hand formula, deterrence, economic efficiency, corrective justice, retributive justice, balancing interests, public authorities, self risk, interests, malpractice, doctors' liability, road accidents, duty to rescue, professional liability, Attorneys' liability

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Private Production of Public Goods: Liability for Unrequested Benefits

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 388, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 202
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2014
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Restitution, torts, damages, positive externalities, negative externalities, property enhancement, common funds, free riding, holdout

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Aggregation and Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 122, 2012, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 375, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 587
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 20 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2012
Ariel Porat and Eric A. Posner
Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago - Law School
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Liability for Future Harm

PERSPECTIVES ON CAUSATION, Richard S. Goldberg, ed., Hart Publishing, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 486, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 268
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2011
Ariel Porat and Alex Stein
Tel Aviv University and Israel Supreme Court
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Remedies

Forthcoming, Handbook of Law and Economics (Francesco Parisi ed., Oxford University Press, 2017) , University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 786
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2016
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Opportunistic Breach of Contract

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-10
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 May 2023
Francesco Parisi, Ariel Porat and Brian Bix
University of Minnesota - Law School, Tel Aviv University and University of Minnesota Law School
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disgorgement damages, opportunistic breach, efficient breach

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Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

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Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 390, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Product rule, alternative liability, probabilities, repeat offenders, law enforcement, sentencing, deterrence, retribution, communicative theories of punishment

Aggregating Probabilities Across Cases: Criminal Responsibility for Unspecified Offenses

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, 2009
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Aggregating probabilities, statistical evidence, presumption of innocence, the product rule, sentencing, punishment, deterrence, minimization of adjudication errors, law enforcement, retribution, expressivism, justice-based theories of punishment, plea-bargains

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Misalignments in Tort Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, p. 82, 2011, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 547
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 10 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2011
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Negligence, duty of care, damages, risks, scope of liability, proximate cause, medical malpractice, lost earning, probabilistic recoveries, lost chances of recovery, indeterminate plaintiff and defendant

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A Comparative Fault Defense in Contract Law

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, p. 1397, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 436
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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comparative fault, good faith in performance, mitigation of damages, cooperation, over-reliance

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Offsetting Risks

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Offsetting Risks

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 106, p. 243, November 2007, University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 316
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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causation, causal link, offsetting benefits, medical malpractice, negligence, damages, positve externalities, over deterrence

Offsetting Risks

Michigan Law Review, 2007
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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causation, causal link, offsetting benefits, medical malpractice, negligence, damages, positve externalities, over deterrence

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Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict

29 Journal of Legal Studies 19 (2000) UC Berkeley Law & Economics Research Paper No. 2000-10
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 10 Jan 2000 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2021
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Disgorgement Damages for Accidents

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 44, 2015, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 688, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2439986
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 May 2014 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2015
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Mistake Under the Common European Sales Law

Common Market Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 604
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jun 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Mistake, fraud, non-disclosure, disclosure, mutual mistake, unilateral mistake, Common European Sales Law, comparative law

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Harm-Benefit Interactions

American Law and Economics Review, Forthcoming, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-27, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 588
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2013
Oren Bar-Gill and Ariel Porat
Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University
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The Dark Side of Insurance

U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Ronen Avraham and Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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insurance, collusion, consumer protection

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Free Speech and Cheap Talk

11 Journal of Legal Analysis 46 (2019), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 872, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 700
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
Daniel J. Hemel and Ariel Porat
New York University School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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defamation, libel, slander, torts, tort law, signaling, free speech, First Amendment

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A Welfarist Perspective on Lies

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 91, No. 3, 2016, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 706, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 491
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2016
Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Torts and Restitution: Legal Divergence and Economic Convergence

92 Southern California Law Review 897 (2019), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 863
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Commensurability and Agency: Two Yet-to-Be-Met Challenges for Law and Economics

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 749, 2011, University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 558, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 354
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Jun 2011
Alon Harel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Law and economics, commensurability, agency, negligence, torture, valuing life, dignity, privatization, punishment, human rights

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The Unconventional Uses of Transaction Costs

BOILERPLATE: FOUNDATIONS OF MARKET CONTRACT, O. Ben Shahr, ed., 2007, University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 310
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Oct 2006
David Gilo and Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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contract, market, contracts, consumers, boilerplate

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Limited Inalienability Rules

107 Georgetown Law Journal 701 (2019), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 657, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 841, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2025
Ariel Porat and Stephen D. Sugarman
Tel Aviv University and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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The Future of Law and Economics and the Calabresian External Moral Costs

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 604, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 787
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 Dec 2016
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Can Restitution Save Fragile Spiderless Networks?

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Can Restitution Save Fragile Spiderless Networks?

8 Harvard Business Law Review 1 (2018), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 804, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2025
Ariel Porat and Robert E. Scott
Tel Aviv University and Columbia University - Law School
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Can Restitution Save Fragile Spiderless Networks?

Harvard Business Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2020
Ariel Porat and Robert E. Scott
Tel Aviv University and Columbia University - Law School
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Addiction to a Network *

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2024
David Gilo, Ariel Porat and Yevgeny Tsodikovich
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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network, addiction, peer pressure, fear of missing out, social media platforms, inuencers, rehabilitation, dynamic programming. JEL Classication Numbers: L14, C61, C73, K13, K29

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Changing People's Preferences by the State and the Law

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2019, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 886, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 722
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Willingness to Pay, Death, Wealth, and Damages

13 American Law and Economics Review 45 (2011), U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 531
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2014
Ariel Porat and Avraham D. Tabbach
Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv University
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Value of statistical life (VSL), precaution under risk of death, willingness to pay, willingness to accept, medical care, reverse-insurance, annuities, reverse-mortgage, value of inheritance

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Offsetting Benefits

100 Virginia Law Review 1165 (2014), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 675
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2014
Ariel Porat and Eric A. Posner
Tel Aviv University and University of Chicago - Law School
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Liability Externalities and Mandatory Choices: Should Doctors Pay Less?

Journal of Tort Law, Vol. 1, 2006, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 313
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Nov 2006
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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positive externalities, negative externalities, medical malpractice, doctors' liability, road accidents, activity level, mandatory choices, disgorgement damages for accidents, damages

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Implementing the Law by Impartial Agents: An Exercise in Tort Law and International Law

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 6, January 2005
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Eyal Benvenisti and Ariel Porat
University of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Tel Aviv University
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Impartiality, conflict of interests, tit-for-tat, negligence, agency costs, enforcement costs, outcome interest, accuracy interest, reciprocity interest, enforcement of the law

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Tort Liability and the Risk of Discriminatory Government

87 University of Chicago Law Review 1 (2020), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 870, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 698, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper 19-08
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
Ehud Guttel and Ariel Porat
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Asymmetries and Incentives in Plea Bargaining and Evidence Production

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 122, 2012, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 592, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 379
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2012
Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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Viewing Unconscionability through a Market Lens

William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 133, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 489
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2012
David Gilo and Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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contracts, consumer contracts, market-based approach

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Lapses of Attention in Medical Malpractice and Road Accidents

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 15, p. 329, 2014, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 690, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2455828
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jun 2014
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Symposium: Third Restatement of Torts: 'Expanding Liability for Negligence Per-Se'

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 979, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 485
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2012
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Negligence, negligence per se, causation

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Ex-Post Right, Ex-Ante Wrong

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 89, 2014, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 617
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2014
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University
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Negligence, products liability, medical malpractice, ex ante and ex post negligence, design defect, state of the art defense, silicone breast implants litigation

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Liability for Lapses: First or Second Order Negligence?

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 435
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Oct 2008
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University
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lapses, momentary care, negligence, medical malpractice, road accidents, positive externalities

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Threats and Criminal Deterrence in Several Dimensions

[2017] University of Illinois Law Review 1333, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 779
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2025
Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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threats, criminal deterrence, law and economics, criminal law, deterrence theory

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Promoting Consensus in Society Through Deferred-Implementation Agreements

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Promoting Consensus in Society Through Deferred-Implementation Agreements

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Sep 2004
Omri Yadlin and Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Tel Aviv University
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Externalities, redistribution, next generations, unemployment, veil of ignorance, deferred implementation agreements

Promoting Consensus in Society Through Deferred-Implementation Agreements

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 56, 2006
Posted: 31 Mar 2006
Ariel Porat and Omri Yadlin
Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law

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Externalities, redistribution, next generations, unemployment, veil of ignorance, deferred implementation agreements

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No-Haggle Agreements

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 720
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2015
Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University
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contracts, bargaining, law and economics

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Eyal Zamir and Barak Medina, Law, Economics, and Morality

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies, Vol. 3, p. 91, 2011
Posted: 31 Oct 2011
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University

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Ariel Porat, Law, Economics, and Morality, Zamir, Medina

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Bargaining with Double Jeopardy

Journal of Legal Studies, 2011, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 553
Posted: 06 May 2011
Saul Levmore and Ariel Porat
University of Chicago Law School and Tel Aviv University

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waiving double jeopardy protection; waiving constitutional rights; accused rights and privileges; plea bargains; prosecution powers and incentives; relitigation; retesting; burden of proof; sorting of criminal defendants.

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Total Liability for Excessive Harm

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 36, January 2007, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 894277
Posted: 31 Mar 2006
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University

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Pollution, Negligence, Strict Liability, Proportionate Liability, Damages, Unverifiable Harm, Enviromental Harm

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Indeterminate Causation and Apportionment of Damages: An Essay on Holtby, Allen, and Fairchild

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Indeterminate Causation and Apportionment of Damages: An Essay on Holtby, Allen, and Fairchild

Posted: 18 Jan 2004
Ariel Porat and Alex Stein
Tel Aviv University and Israel Supreme Court

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Causation, Probabilistic Recovery, Mass Torts, Loss of Chances, Indeterminate Plaintiff, Indeterminate Defendant

Indeterminate Causation and Apportionment of Damages: An Essay on Holtby, Allen, and Fairchild

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 667-702, 2003
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Alex Stein and Ariel Porat
Israel Supreme Court and Tel Aviv University

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Tort Liability Under Uncertainty

Ariel Porat and Alex Stein, TORT LIABILITY UNDER UNCERTAINTY, Oxford University Press, December 2001
Posted: 20 Mar 2002
Alex Stein and Ariel Porat
Israel Supreme Court and Tel Aviv University

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Uncertainty, Risk, Mass Torts, Lost chance, Causation, Evidential Damage, Negligence, Malpractice

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Should Courts Deduct Non-Legal Sanctions from Damages?

30 Journal of Legal Studies 401 (2001), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 70
Posted: 15 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University

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Anti-Insurance

31 Journal of Legal Studies 203 (2002), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 71
Posted: 14 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2021
Robert D. Cooter and Ariel Porat
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Tel Aviv University

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Enforcing Contracts in Dysfunctional Legal Systems: The Close Relationship between Public and Private Orders

Michigan Law Review, August 2000
Posted: 02 Jul 2000
Ariel Porat
Tel Aviv University

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Liability for Uncertainty: Making Evidential Damage Actionable

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 18, April 1997.
Posted: 07 Jan 1997
Alex Stein and Ariel Porat
Israel Supreme Court and Tel Aviv University

Abstract:

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