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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."

Publications

All Courses

Law of Torts
Law of Contracts
Negligence
Remedies
Theoretical Perspectives on Private Law Doctrines
Tort Theory