Our final posts come from Hanoch Dagan and Ohad Somech, whose work we discussed previously in June. Now they get to present their work themselves in two parts today and tomorrow.
Ohad is an adjunct lecturer at Tel-Aviv University and a research fellow at the Federmann Cyber Security Center at the Hebrew University. Before joining the Center he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Safra center for Ethics and at the Science-Po Law School. He received his PhD from the Tel Aviv University faculty of law. His dissertation, ‘The Right of Contractual Regret: A Psychological Perspective’, explored the relations between the parties’ emotions and the right to regret in modern contact law and theory. Ohad also holds an LL.B. and a B.A in psychology from Tel-Aviv University and an LL.M. from The European Program in Law and Economics.
Hanoch is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel-Aviv University. He is a former Dean of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and also served as the founding director of the Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, the director of The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, and the Editor in Chief of Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Among his many publications are over 100 articles in major law reviews and journals, such as Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review and more. Hanoch has also written seven books, including Property: Values and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2011), Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Choice Theory of Contracts (with Michael A. Heller) (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Both his new book, A Liberal Theory of Property (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and The Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020), which he edited with Benjamin Zipursky, are forthcoming in a few weeks. Hanoch has been a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, Michigan, Cornell, UCLA, and Toronto. He delivered keynote speeches and endowed lectures at Singapore, Alabama, Toronto, Queensland, Cape Town, Monash (Melbourne), Madrid, and Oxford. Hanoch is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Academy of Comparative Law. He obtained his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School after receiving his LL.B., summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University.
We are delighted to be able to share their work as part of our virtual symposium!
