Samuel Becher

Victoria University of Wellington

Professor of Law

P.O. Box 600

Wellington, 6140

New Zealand

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/about/staff/samuel-becher

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1.

The Duty to Read the Unreadable

60 Boston College Law Review 2255 (2019)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Uri Benoliel and Samuel Becher
College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 3,773 (6,245)
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sign-in-wrap contracts, consumer contracts, duty to read, contracts' readability, information asymmetry, informed consumers

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Asymmetric Information in Consumer Contracts: The Challenge that is Yet to be Met

45 American Business Law Journal 723 (2008)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 1,054 (44,890)
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Consumer contracts, asymmetric information, law and economics, marginal consumers, consumer law

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E-Contract Doctrine 2.0: Standard Form Contracting in the Age of Online User Participation

14 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 303 (2008)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 May 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,035 (46,085)

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Contract Law, e-commerce, Law and economics, Behavioral law and economics, Blogs, blogosphere, Social networks, Information overload, Information flow, Consumer standard form contracts, Web 2.0, Asymmetric information, Online consumer contracts

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Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers

90 George Washington Law Review 83 (2022), U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3740356
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022
Yonathan A. Arbel and Samuel Becher
University of Alabama - School of Law and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 800 (65,634)
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GPT-3, Language Models, Contract Law, Consumer Protection, Smart Readers, Smart Contracts

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Law in Books and Law in Action: The Readability of Privacy Policies and the GDPR

CONSUMER LAW & ECONOMICS, Klaus Mathis & Avishalom Tor eds., Springer (2021), pp. 179-204
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel
Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
Downloads 754 (71,030)
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online privacy, privacy policies, consumer protection, GDPR, readability, plain language

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Behavioral Science and Consumer Standard Form Contracts

68 Louisiana Law Review 117 (2007)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 750 (71,543)
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Consumer standard form contracts, behavioral law and economics, law and economics

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Manipulating, Fast and Slow: The Law of Non-Verbal Market Manipulations

38 Cardozo Law Review 459 (2016)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Yuval Feldman
Victoria University of Wellington and Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 706 (77,329)
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market manipulations, non-verbal communication, law and psychology, behavioral economics, consumer law, paternalism, regulation

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The Law of Standard Form Contracts: Misguided Intuitions and Suggestions for Reconstruction

8 DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal 199 (2010)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Esther Unger-Aviram
Victoria University of Wellington and Sapir Academic College
Downloads 654 (85,227)
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consumer contracts, consumer contracting behavior

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Confronting Product Obsolescence

27 Columbia Journal of European Law 97 (2021)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Anne-Lise Sibony
Victoria University of Wellington and UCLouvain
Downloads 555 (104,931)
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Sustainable Consumption, Planned Obsolescence, Product Obsolescence, Right to Repair, Legal Guarantee, Commercial Guarantee, Smart Disclosures, Ecodesign, Brussels Effect, European Green Deal, Circular Economy, Waste, Extended Producer Responsibility, Take-back Schemes

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A 'Fair Contracts' Approval Mechanism: Reconciling Consumer Contracts and Conventional Contract Law

42 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 747 (2009)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 549 (106,397)

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Consumer form contracts, appproval, contract law

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Unintended Consequences and the Design of Consumer Protection Legislation

93 Tulane Law Review 105 (2018)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 536 (109,606)
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Consumer Law, Consumer Protection Policy, Unintended Consequences, Legislation, Evidence-Based, Temporary Legislation, Administrative Agencies, Consumer Organizations, Public Choice Theory

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Consumer Protection

The Economic Approach to Law (Uriel Procaccia ed.), 2012, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-42
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2018
Samuel Becher and Oren Bar-Gill
Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School
Downloads 524 (112,744)

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consumer law, consumer protection, market failures, cooling off period, bounded rationality, information asymmetry, information overlaod, over optimism, consumer contracts, soft paternalism, regulation, informed consumers, consumers' heterogeneity, disclosures, default rules, enforcement

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Poor Consumer(s) Law: The Case of High-Cost Credit and Payday Loans

The Cambridge Handbook of Marketing and the Law (CUP, Jacob Gersen & Joel Stekel eds., 2023) pp. 384-414, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-357 , Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 18-20
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Samuel Becher, Yuval Feldman and Orly Lobel
Victoria University of Wellington, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 518 (114,340)

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Poor consumer, responsible lending, payday loans, consumer credit, credit contracts, consumer behavior, high cost credit, scarcity

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Dark Contracts

64 Boston College Law Review 55 (2023)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 27 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel
Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
Downloads 436 (140,632)

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Dark Contracts, non-transparency, consumer contracts, empirical findings, unreadable contracts, contractual discrimination, contract termination, unilateral change-of-terms clauses, dispute resolution, mandated arbitration, contractual promises, transparency as disclosure, transparency as rules

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דייט עם המשפט: על הסדרת פעילותם של אתרי היכרויות מקוונים (J(Uris) Date: Regulating Online Dating Sites)

30 Bar Ilan University Law Review 7 (2015)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2018
Samuel Becher and Itay Krayden
Victoria University of Wellington and Independent
Downloads 367 (170,963)

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online dating, regulation, consumer protection, paradox of choice, consumer contracts, market failures

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Hungry for Change: The Law and Policy of Food Health Labeling

54 Wake Forest Law Review 1305 (2019)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law, Student/Alumni and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
Downloads 344 (183,527)
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behavioral economics, consumer behavior, consumer protection, dual reasoning, food labeling, food labeling policy, front-of-package labeling, health labeling, information asymmetry, informed decisions, obesity epidemic

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הגנת הצרכן
(Consumer Protection)

הגישה הכלכלית למשפט (א' פרוקצ'יה עורך, 2012)
The Economic Approach to Law (Edited by Uriel Procaccia, 2012)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Oren Bar-Gill
Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School
Downloads 340 (185,853)

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consumer law, consumer protection, market failures, cooling off period, bounded rationality, information asymmetry, information overlaod, over optimism, consumer contracts, soft paternalism, regulation, informed consumers, consumers' heterogeneity, disclosures, default rules, enforcement

18.

Sneak in Contracts

55 Georgia Law Review 657 (2021)
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel
Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
Downloads 334 (189,427)
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consumer contracts, modification clauses, sign-in-wrap contracts, empirical analysis, change-of-terms provisions, information asymmetry, informed consumers

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Relationship as Product: Transacting in the Age of Loneliness

2021 University of Illinois Law Review 1547 (2021)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 07 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Sarah Dadush
Victoria University of Wellington and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersy- Rutgers Law School, Responsible Contracting Project
Downloads 328 (193,153)
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B2C relationship, exchange relationship, communal relationship, consumer behavior, loneliness, irrationality, trust, wellbeing, emotional branding, puffery, deception, unfairness

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Online Consumer Contracts: No One Reads, But Does Anyone Care?

12 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 105 (2015)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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Standard form contracts, information privacy, emperical legal studies, EULA, B2B, B2C, click-wrap contracts

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Termination Without Explanation Contracts

2022 University of Illinois Law Review 1059 (2022)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Uri Benoliel and Samuel Becher
College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 282 (226,680)

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Consumer Contracts, Termination, Explanation, a Duty To Explain, Social Costs, Transparency, Empirical Analysis, Automation Bias, Consumer Discrimination

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עשיית אושר וגם במשפט: לקראת גישה הוליסטית לדיני הצרכנות' (From Consumer Protection to Consumers’ Wellness: Towards a More Holistic Approach to Consumer Law)

11 Haifa L. Rev. 341 (2018)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2018
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 281 (227,503)

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consumer protection, consumer wellness, consumer law, subjective well-being, happiness, life satisfaction, consumer regulation, paternalism, market failures, cognitive biases, commercials, ethical consumers

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אושר סטודנטיאלי וחינוך משפטי: לא בבית ספרינו?
(Students' Well-Being and Legal Education: Imperative Lessons from Positive Psychology)

המשפט יט 125 2014
19 Hamishpat (Colman) Law Review 125 (2014)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Nofar Asselman and Samuel Becher
Independent and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 264 (242,349)

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אושר, חינוך משפטי, סטודנטים למשפטים, פסיכולוגיה חיובית, legal education, students' well-being, positive psychology

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How Smart are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem

The Cambridge Handbook on Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology (Stacy-Ann Elvy & Nancy S. Kim eds., 2025) pp. 336-374 
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2025
Yonathan A. Arbel and Samuel Becher
University of Alabama - School of Law and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 263 (243,314)

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Consumer contracts, consumer protection, contractual complexity, GPT4, large language models, readab

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Ending the License to Exploit: Administrative Oversight of Consumer Contracts

62 Boston College Law Review 2405 (2021)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Yehuda Adar and Samuel Becher
University of Haifa and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 244 (262,307)

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consumer contracts, boilerplate, unfair terms, illegal terms, unconscionability, exploitative contracts, prevention, private and public enforcement, administrative control

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Big Mistake(s)

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 24 May 2024
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 241 (265,519)

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Access to justice, Mistake, Platform-User Relationships, Mandated Arbitration, Restitution, Standard Form Contracts, Online Manipulation, User Exploitation, Intangibale Assests, Disgorgement, Privacy, Personal Information

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Regulating Product Return Policies: The Trade-off between Efficiency and Distribution

52 The Journal of Legal Studies 137-191 (2023)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Samuel Becher, Eberhard Feess and Roee Sarel
Victoria University of Wellington, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg
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product returns, return policy, consumer protection, consumer uncertainty, cancellations, withdrawals

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In Consumer Protection We Trust? Re-Thinking the Legal Framework for Country of Origin Cases

55 San Diego Law Review 539 (2018)
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2018
Samuel Becher and Jessica C. Lai
Victoria University of Wellington and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
Downloads 231 (276,678)

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Consumer Law, Consumer Protection Policy, Trust, Country of Origin, Deterrence, Punishments

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הסדרה ראויה של חוזים צרכניים מקוונים: בין קידום המסחר המקוון להגנת הצרכן
(Reconfiguring E-Contract Policy: Market Optimization, Consumer Protection, and the Promotion of Trust in E-Commerce Transactions)

25 Bar-Ilan University Law Review 431 (2009)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
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The Puzzle of Effective Consumer Protection Legislation: Challenges, Key Lessons and Design Principles

The Law and Economics of Regulation, pp. 73-99 (Mathis & Torr eds.) (Springer, 2021)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 01 May 2021
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 209 (304,320)

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Consumer protection, legislation process, unintended consequences, (ir)rational consumers, small claims courts, disclosures, consumer organizations, temporary laws, evidence-bases approach, public choice theory, credit regulation, unhealthy foods, cooling-off period, gradual legislation

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פרדוקס הייצוג והכוח בבית המשפט לתביעות קטנות? על תביעות ביטוח, פערי כוחות וכף רגלו של השופט
(The Paradox of Power and Representation in Small Claims Court)

(2010) הפרקליט נ 327
50 Hapraklit Law Review 327 (2010)
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Avishai Klein
Victoria University of Wellington and Independent
Downloads 207 (307,088)

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small claims court, insurance, litigation, legal representation, empirical findings

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Toxic Promises

63 Boston College Law Review 753 (2022)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Samuel Becher, Yuval Feldman and Meirav Furth
Victoria University of Wellington, Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and UCLA School of Law
Downloads 199 (318,623)

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Oral Promises, Precontractual Exchanges, Contracts, Consumer Law, Fraud, Behavioral Ethics, Law & Psychology

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Minding the Gap

51 Connecticut Law Review 69 (2019)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 196 (323,068)

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Consumer contracts, Online Information Flow, Feedback and Ranking Mechanisms, Firms' Behavior, Trust, Information Asymmetry

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תוכן קונקרטי לסטנדרטים עמומים: ניתוח התנהגותי של חוזים אחידים
(Concrete Content to Vague Standards: Behavioral Analysis of Consumer Contracts)

(עיוני משפט לג 277 (תש"ע
33 Tel Aviv University Law Review 277 (2010)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 190 (332,476)

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חוזים אחידים, חוזים צרכניים, כללים וסטנדרטים, הטיות קוגניטיביות, ניתוח התנהגותית, הגנת הצרכן, consumer law, consumer contract, rules and standards, cognitive biases, market failures, behavioral analysis of law

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LexOptima: The Promise of AI-Enabled Legal Systems

75 University of Toronto Law Journal 73-121 (2025)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2025
Benjamin Alarie and Samuel Becher
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 170 (367,284)

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Decent law, decentralization, data-driven law, community-driven law, access to justice, artificial intelligence, legal singularity, legal transformation

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ייקוב הדין את האגורה (By Hook or by Crook: Penny-Wise, Dollar Foolish and Consumer Protection Legislation)

חוקים בקצרה 2015
Online Israeli Journal on Legislation (2015)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2022
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 167 (372,919)

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consumer protection, legislation, pricing manipulation, psychological manipulation, left-digit effect, level effects, price ending, image effect

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Data Rights and Consumer Contracts: The Case of Personal Genomic Services

Data Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2023; Damian Clifford, Jeannie Paterson & Kwan Ho Lau eds) pp. 83-101
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 15 May 2024
Samuel Becher and Andelka M. Phillips
Victoria University of Wellington and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 165 (376,930)

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Data rights, privacy rights, consumer contracts, health services, personal genomics, genetic testing, economic and behavioral analysis

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Open Doors, Trap Doors and the Law

74 Law & Contemporary Problems 63 (2011)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 160 (386,888)
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Open Doors, Consumer Law, Consumer Contracts, Behavioral Law and Economics

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Front-of-Pack Labelling and International Trade Law: Revisiting the Health Star Rating System

21(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 145 (2020)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023
Jessica C. Lai and Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 148 (413,026)
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Front-of-Package Labelling, Food Law, Public Health, Consumer Protection, International Trade Law, WTO

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Messy Contracts

2024 University of Illinois Law Review 893-937 (2024)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Feb 2023
Uri Benoliel and Samuel Becher
College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 144 (422,094)

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Access to justice, contract law, duty to organize, empirical analysis, enforcement mechanisms, messy contracts, online contracting, organizational signals, transparency, vulnerable consumers

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דיני הצרכנות - לאן? 30 שנה לחקיקה הצרכנית
(Foreword: Symposium on 30 Years of Consumer Law Legislation)

(חוקים ה 5 (2013
5 Israeli Journal on Legislation 5 (2013)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 142 (426,819)

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דיני הצרכנות, חקיקה צרכנית,consumer law, consumer legislation

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רעבים לשינוי: שוק הדיאטות מפרספקטיבת דיני הצרכנות
(Hungry for Change: The Thinness Myth and the Diet Industry from a Consumer Law Perspective)

9 Haifa Law Review 13 (2015)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2016
Samuel Becher and Inbal Shprung-Cohen
Victoria University of Wellington and Independent
Downloads 131 (455,061)

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consumer protection, consumer health, diet market, market failures, regulation

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Hidden Contracts

49 Brigham Young University Law Review 307 (2023)
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2024
Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel
Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
Downloads 130 (457,889)

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access to justice; consumer activism; hidden contracts; inefficient breach; internet archives; reputational constraints; technological divide; transparency duty; unfair practices

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The Alternative Meat of the Matter

98 Tulane Law Review 99 (2023)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2024
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 117 (496,627)
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environmental harm, ethical consumption, evidence-based policy, food security, industry lobby, innovative foods; food labeling, meat consumption, plant-based meat alternatives, public health, regulatory design principles

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Ex ante Access to Justice

30(2) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 138 (2023)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 113 (509,780)

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Access to justice; Consumer protection; Consumer voice; Ex ante access to justice; Food labeling; Industry power; Law-making; Prevention; Unfair terms

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עיון מחודש ביעדי החינוך המשפטי-קליני: בין אמפתיה לאושר
(a Fresh Approach to Clinical Legal Education)

(המשפט יז 17 (תשע"ג
17 Hamishpat (Colman) Law Review 17 (2012)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
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חינוך משפטי, קליניקה משפטית, אמפתיה, קליניקה צרכנית, consumer law clinic, legal education, empathy in legal education, legal clinics, happiness and well-being

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Seduction by Disclosure

9 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 72 (2014)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2023
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 100 (557,044)

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consumer protection, online information flow, consumer contracts, privacy, disclosures, law and psychology, law and technology, data protection

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מקופ'חים: שוק הביטוחים המשלימים מפרספקטיבת דיני הצרכנות
(The Supplementary Insurance Market: A Consumer Law Perspective)

(רפואה ומשפט כרך 48, עמ' 19 (2015
48 Law and Medicine 19 (2015)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2015
Samuel Becher and Avigail Ben Aroya
Victoria University of Wellington and Independent
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health insurance, supplementary health insurance, consumer protection, market failures, cognitive biases, decision making, regulation, Switching costs, disclosures, information overload, intermediaries, asymmetric information

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מנגנון הצמדה א-סימטרי כתנאי מקפח? בעקבות תיקון מס' 4 לחוק החוזים האחידים
(Asymmetric Linkage Mechanism in Standard Form Contracts: An Unfair Contractual Term?)

חוקים בקצרה 2013
Online Israeli Journal on Legislation (2013)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Moshe gelbard
Victoria University of Wellington and Netanya Academic College
Downloads 94 (579,978)

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הגנת הצרכן, תנאי מקפח, חוזים אחידים, בית הדין לחוזים אחידים, חזקות קיפוח, מנגנון הצמדה א-סימטרי

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חוק החוזים האחידים: עיון מחודש בעקבות תיקוניו
(the Standard Form Contracts Law: Re-Review Following Amendments)

(חוקים ה 19 (2013
5 Israeli Journal on Legislation 19(2013)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Moshe gelbard
Victoria University of Wellington and Netanya Academic College
Downloads 93 (583,957)

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חוזה אחיד, חוזה צרכני, חוק החוזים האחידים, תיקוני חקיקה, דיני הצרכנות, form contracts, consumer contracts, regulating consumer contracts,

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Protecting Consumer Protection

49 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 259 (2018)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2018
Jessica C. Lai and Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 85 (617,010)

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consumer protection, country of origin, goodwill, reputation, penalties, courts

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?זכות הביטול בעסקות צרכניות: רגישות מוצדקת או ניצחון פירוס
(Consumers’ Right of Withdrawal: A Well-Reasoned Right Or a Pyrrhic Victory?)

(2010) עיוני משפט לב 127
32 Tel Aviv University Law Review 127 (2010)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher and Tal Zarsky
Victoria University of Wellington and University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Downloads 79 (643,520)
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זכות חרטה, הגנת הצרכן, זכות ביטול

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Genetic and Genomic Consultation: Are We Ready for Direct-to-Consumer Telegenetics?

9:550 FRONTIERS IN GENETICS 2018
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 26 Dec 2018
Li Du and Samuel Becher
University of Macau and Victoria University of Wellington
Downloads 55 (774,856)

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telegenetics, telegenomics, direct-to-consumer, genetic services, risks and benefits, privacy, informed consent, consumer protection

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חוזים נעדרי שקיפות Non-Transparent Contracts

ספר סיני דויטש (2024) 253-292
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2024
Samuel Becher and Uri Benoliel
Victoria University of Wellington and College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School
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consumer form contracts, dark contracts, non-transparency, transparency tools, unfair terms

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Consecuencias no esperadas y diseño de la Legislación de Protección del Consumidor (Unintended Consequence and the Design of Consumer Protection Legislation)

Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de México, Tomo LXX, Número 278, Septiembre-Diciembre 2020, For the original article see Unintended Consequences and the Design of Consumer Protection Legislation, 93 Tulane Law Review 105 (2018)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 05 Jan 2021
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
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legislation design, public choice, consumer protection, small claims courts, disclosures, cooling off periods, credit regulation, evidence-based approach, temporary legislation, gradual legislation, consumer agencies,

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החינוך המשפטי: על מה שבפנים ועל מה שבחוץ
(Legal Education in Israel: The Imperative and the Immaterial)

(עיוני משפט כה 243 (תשס"ב
25 Tel Aviv University Law Review 243 (2001)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Gal Sides, Samuel Becher and Ofir Naveh
Independent, Victoria University of Wellington and Independent
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חינוך משפטי, תכנית לימודים, הפקולטה למשפטים

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לא תשבע עין מראות ולא תמלא אוזן משמוע: הגיע העת ל'חדש תחת השמש' בחינוך המשפטי
(Legal Education in the 21st Century: There's Much (to Re)New Under the Sun)

(המשפט יט 7 (תשע"ד
19 Hamishpat (Colman) Law Review 7 (2014)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2015
Samuel Becher
Victoria University of Wellington
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חינוך משפטי, שוק עריכת הדין, הכשרה משפטית, legal education, legal training, trends in legal education