Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityRonen Avraham
Associate Professor of Law
Phone: (312) 503-4469
E-mail: r-avraham@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) (pdf) | Dataset of Tort Law Reforms 1980-2005 (download excel file 11/02/20)
Phone: (312) 503-4469
E-mail: r-avraham@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) (pdf) | Dataset of Tort Law Reforms 1980-2005 (download excel file 11/02/20)
Ronen Avraham joined the Northwestern faculty in 2003 as an assistant professor of law after participating in the visiting assistant professor program in 2002-03. His primary research interests are in economic analysis of torts, property and contracts; distribution in the law; and behavioral economics and the law.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Medical Malpractice
- Torts
- Tort Reform
- Law and Economics
- Insurance Law
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Putting a Price on Pain-and-Suffering Damages: A Critique of the Current Approaches and a Preliminary Proposal for Change, Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 100, 2006
- Database of State Tort Law Reforms
- Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive v. Optional Remedies, forthcoming in American Law and Economic Review, Vol 8(2) Fall 2006 (with Zhiyong Liu)
- Should Pain-And-Suffering Damages Be Abolished From Tort Law? More Experimental Evidence, 55 University of Toronto Law Journal, 941 (2005)
- An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Payments Malpractice Payments
Recent Publications
- An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reforms on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments, JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, 2008
- The Tragedy of the Human Commons, CARDOZO LAW REVIEW , 2007
- Arrangements for Liquidated Damages in the New Proposed Civil Legislation, LAW & BUSINESS , 2007
- Putting a Price on Pain-and-Suffering Damages: A Critique of the Current Approaches and a Preliminary Proposal for Change, DEFENSE LAW JOURNAL , 2007
- Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive v. Optional Remedies, AMERICAN LAW AND ECONOMICS REVIEW, 2007
EDUCATION
- LLB magna cum laude, Bar Ian University School of Law, Israel
- MA magna cum laude, Bar Ian University School of Business Administration
- LLM, SjD, University of Michigan
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Tel Aviv and Bar Ian Universities, Winter 2002
- Lecturer, University of Michigan, Winter and Fall 2001
- Law Clerk, Israel Supreme Court, 1998
