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Ariel Porat Dean, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law J.S.D., Tel Aviv University, 1989 LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1983 Ariel Porat is the Dean of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, where he received his LL.B., magna cum laude, and J.S.D. He will teach Remedies at the Law School in fall 2004. Porat has been a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (1989-90), a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1998-99), and in 2003 at the University of Chicago. From 1997-2002, he was Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law. He is the founder of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law and was its editor-in-chief during 1999-2003. Porat's scholarship includes Contributory Fault in the Law of Contracts (1997); Tort Liability under Uncertainty, with co-author Alex Stein (Oxford University Press 2001); and many articles in torts and contracts, most recently, "Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict," co-authored with Robert Cooter; "Should Courts Deduct Non-Legal Sanctions from Damages?"; and "Anti-Insurance."

Books:

Comparative Fault in Contract Law (The Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law 1997) (in Hebrew).

Tort Liability under Uncertainty (Oxford University Press 2001) (with A. Stein).

Articles:

"Enforcement of the Law by Impartial Actors" 5 Theoretical Inquiries in Law (2005) (with E. Benvenisti) (forthcoming).

"Decreasing Liability Contracts", 33 Journal of Legal studies (2004) (with R. Cooter) (forthcoming).

"Achieving Consensus for Wealth Redistribution Through Deferred-Execution Agreements" 28 Tel-Aviv University Law Review (2004) (with O. Yadlin) (forthcoming) (in Hebrew).

"Indeterminate Causation and Apportionment of Damages: An Essay on Holtby, Allen and Fairchild," 23 Oxf. J. Leg. Stud. 667 (2003) (with A. Stein).

"Liability for Lost Chances: An Exact Science or Law?" 27 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 357 (2003) (in Hebrew).

"Standard Contracts," in Contracts, Vol. 3, (D. Friedmann & N. Cohen, eds.) 729 (2003).

"The Tobacco Industry Litigation and the New Challenge of Tort Law,"

33 Mishpatim (Laws), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Journal 477 (2003).

"The Many Faces of Negligence," 4 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 105 (2003).

"Negligence and Self-Risk," 26 Tel Aviv University Law Review 321 (2002) (in Hebrew).

"Anti Insurance," 31 Journal of Legal Studies 203 (2002) (with R. Cooter).

"Should Court Deduct Non-Legal Sanctions from Damages?" 30 Journal of Legal Studies 401 (2001) (with R. Cooter).

"Questioning the Idea of Correlativity in Weinrib's Theory of Corrective Justice,"

2 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 161 (2001).

"Negligence and Interests," 24 Tel Aviv University Law Review 275 (2000) (in Hebrew).

"Enforcing Contracts in Dysfunctional Legal Systems: The Close Relationship Between Public and Private Orders," 98 Michigan Law Review 2459 (2000).

"Compensation for Risk-Creating and Loss of Chances," 23 Tel Aviv University Law Review 605 (2000) (in Hebrew).

"Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict," 29 Journal of Legal Studies 19 (2000) (with R. Cooter).

"The Evidential Damage Doctrine: A Response to Critique," 30 Mishpatim (Laws), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Journal 349 (1999) (in Hebrew) (with A. Stein).

"Israeli Law - The Seventies," in The Courts of Law - Fifty Years of Adjudication in Israel 98 (1999) (in Hebrew).

"Justice Considerations and Behavior-Guiding Considerations in the Law of Contracts," 22 Tel Aviv University Law Review 647 (1999) (in Hebrew).

"The Evidential Damage Doctrine: A Positive Analysis of the Law," 21 Tel Aviv University Law Review 191 (1998) (with A. Stein) (in Hebrew).

"Liability for Uncertainty: Making Evidential Damage Actionable," 18 Cardozo Law Review 1891 (1997) (with A. Stein).

"Negligence Law in the Supreme Court: Search for the Underline Theory," 3 Yearbook on Israeli Law 357 (1996) (in Hebrew).

"The Contributory Negligence Defence and the Ability to Rely on the Contract," 111 Law Quarterly Review 228 (1995).

"Contributory Negligence in the Law of Contracts: Toward A Principled Approach," 28 University of British Columbia Law Review 141 (1994).

"Tort Law," in Introduction to the Law of Israel 127, Kluwer, Holland, A. Shapira eds. (1995).

"Collective Responsibility in the Law of Torts, " 23 Mishpatim (Laws), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law Journal 311 (1994) (in Hebrew).

"Tort Law," 2 Yearbook on Israeli Law 247 (1993) (in Hebrew).

"Application of the Contributory Negligence Defence in the Law of Contracts," 18 Tel Aviv University Law Review 103 (1993) (in Hebrew).

"Means of Payments," in The Law of Obligations - General Part 431, D. Friedmann, ed. (1994) (in Hebrew).

"Apportionment of Payments," in The Law of Obligations - General Part 569, D. Friedmann, ed. (1994) (in Hebrew).

"Tort Law," 1 Yearbook on Israeli Law 221 (1991) (in Hebrew).

"Sharing Responsibility in Cases of Frustration of Contract," 16 Tel Aviv University Law Review 65 (1991) (in Hebrew).

"Hardship to Third Parties and the Remedy of Specific Performance," in Luvenberg Book, 138, D. Friedmann & I. Shilo, eds. (1987) (in Hebrew).

Editing:

Judicial Activism in Israel (Ramot Press 1993) (in Hebrew).

17 Tel Aviv University Law Review (1991-2) (in Hebrew).

Cases and Materials in Tort Law Vol. 1-5 (1992) (in Hebrew) (edited with Daniel More).

Ariel Rozen-Zvi: Religion, Liberalism, Family and Society - Collection of Articles (Ramot Press 2001) (in Hebrew).

Theoretical Inquiries in Law (founder, editor in chief since 1997)