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Yuval Feldman

Curriculum Vitae

Faculty of Law

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan, Israel 52900

Contact Information

Tel: 972-3-531-7074

Fax: 972-3-7384044

Email: Yuval.Feldman@biu.ac.il

Education

Ph.D. Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

L.L.B. Bar-Ilan University, Magna Cum Laude, Ramat-Gan Israel, 1998.

B.A. Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, 1998.

Research Fields

Employment and Labor Law; Law and Technology, Psychology and Law, Experimental Law and Economics; Quantitative Approaches to Law and Society; Regulatory Impact and Social Norms; Legal implications of Organizational Behavior; Ethical Decision-Making; Formal and Non-formal Enforcement.

Professional Experience

2011- Visiting the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Banaji Social Cognition Lab, Harvard University
2011-Present Professor (Associate), Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.

2009 - 2011 Present Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.

2005-2009 Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.

2004-2005 Instructor, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University.

2000-2002 Graduate Student Instructor, Economic Analysis of Private Law, University of
California, Berkeley.

2000-2002 Graduate Student Instructor, Economic Analysis of Public Law, University of
California, Berkeley.

Sum, 2001 Research Assistant, AFL-CIO State Legislation Project, California Institute of
Industrial Relations.

Sum, 2000 Research Assistant, Prof. Robert J. MacCoun, Econometric Analysis of Social
Norms and Juvenile Drug Use, University of California, Berkeley.

1998-1999 Teaching Assistant, Criminal Law, Shaarey Mishpat College of Legal Studies,
Hod Hasharon.

1998-1999 Clerk to the Honorable Justice Tova Strasberg-Cohen, Israel's Supreme Court,
Jerusalem.

1997-1999 Teaching Assistant, Criminal Law, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat - Gan.

1997-1998 Dr. Rosensweig and Co. Attorneys, Tel-Aviv.

Competitive Grants

2011-2012 The Contribution of Ambiguity to the Creation and Endurance of Noncompliance in Organizations. The Safra Lab, Harvard University

2011-2013 Contractual Compliance Motivations (with Doron Teichman) Israel National Science Foundation

2009-2011 The Immunity of Civilians in War: Exploring Moral Intuitions about Killing
Innocents in Military Conflicts (with Izik Benbaji) The Israel Science Foundation
ISF

2008-2009 The Litigation Bounty: A Study of the Comparative Effectiveness of Monetary
Rewards as Compliance Systems. (with Orly Lobel) American Bar Association

2008-2009 The Regulatory State at the 21st Century: Fundamental Questions in the Design
of Regulatory Policy - Lessons from the Environmental Field (The Israel
Science Foundation ISF -Workshop Grant) with Oren Perez.

2008-2009 An Experimental Analysis of the Effect of Fairness, Social Norms, Self-interest
and Legal Context on the Optimal Specificity of Legal Rules. (German-Israel
Foundation-Young Scientists Program)

2006-2008 The Instrument Choice Dilemma in the Environmental Field: An Experimental
Approach to the Effect of Regulation on the Formation of Social Norms. The Israel
Science Foundation ISF (with Oren Perez)

2005-2007 Labor Laws, Employment Contracts and Collective Agreements: An
Experimental Survey of Israeli Employees' Attitudes toward Legality in the
Workplace. EU International Reintegration Grant (Marry Currie)

2005-2006 Research Grant from the Institute for the Study of the Banking Industry (with
David Hann).

Honors and Fellowships

2011-2102 The Edmund Safra Center for the Study of Ethics, Harvard University

2008 The Zeltner Award for the Young Scholar - Tel-Aviv University and the Rotary
Foundation

2007-2010 Alon Fellowship - Israel's Counsel for Advancing Science

2003 Liberty Fund, DC, Honorarium

2002-2003 UC Berkeley Graduate Division, Fellowship

2002 George Mason University, Honorarium

2001-2004 Institute for Humane Studies, Research Fellowship

2003-2004 JSP/Graduate Division Department Level Fellowships

2001-2002 JSP/Graduate Division Department Level Fellowships

2000-2004 John M. Olin Research Fellowship in Law and Economics

2000 Society of Psychological Study of Social Issues

1999-2001 U.S-Israel Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship

1999-2000 The Rothschild Foundation -Yad Hanadiv- Doctoral Fellowship

Publications

•  Law and Economics of Employment law (with Orly Lobel and Lilach Luria)(in Hebrew)(Handbook of Law and Economics in Israel, Uriel Procachia, Ed.)
• Are all Contractual Obligations Created Equal (with Doron Teichman) forthcoming 100 The Georgetown Law Journal (2011)
•  Behind the veil of Legal Uncertainty (with Shachar Lifshitz) [Symposium-- Behavioral Analysis of law]. J. Law and Contemporary Problems (2011)
• What Do Workers Really Want, (with Amir Falk and Miri Katz)forthcoming 15 (1) Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal (2011)
• The Complexity of Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Compliance Motivations: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from the Behavioral Analysis of Law,[Symposium --For Love or Money], Forthcoming Wash U J. of Law and Policy (2011)
• Individuals as Enforcers: the Design of Employee Reporting Systems (with Orly Lobel) Forthcoming Explaining Regulatory Compliance: Business Responses to Legal, Voluntary and Transnational Regulation; Elgar Press (2011)
• Toward a Behaviorally Responsive Regulation, Forthcoming, Handbook of Regulation, Elgar Press 2010
• Law and Psychology: Some Thoughts on the Future of the Field, Forthcoming Law & Business, (Hebrew) 2010
• The Incentives Matrix: The Comparative Effectiveness of Rewards, Liabilities, Duties and Protections for Reporting Illegality (With Orly Lobel) forthcoming Texas Law Rev 2010.
• How Law Changes the Environmental Mind: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Legal Norms on Moral Perceptions and Civic Enforcement (With Oren Perez) 36(4) J. Law & Society, 501 , 2009
• Are all Legal Probabilities Created Equal (with Doron Teichman) 84(4) NYU Law Review, 980, (2009)
• Ex Ante vs. Ex-Post: Optimizing State Intervention in Exploitive Triangular Employment Relationship, 31(1)Comp Labor Law and Poc'y, 751 (2009)
• Equality in Triangular Relationship in Israel, Empirical and Doctrinal Perspectives (with Ronit Nadiv) forthcoming Law, Labor and Society (TAU Press, 2010) (In Hebrew).
• The Expressive Function of the Trade Secret Law: Legality, Cost, Intrinsic Motivation and Consensus 6(1) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies,177, 2009
• The Psychology of Conflict of Interests in the Public Sector, Forthcoming in Conflict of Interests in the Public Sector (Daphna Barak-Erez, Doron Navot and Mordechay Kreminzer, Eds, (2009) (in Hebrew)
• The Misperception of Norms: The Psychology of Bias and the Economics of Equilibrium (with Robert D. Cooter and Michal Feldman,) http://works.bepress.com/robert_cooter/138 Review of Law & Economics, 2009
• Moderators and Mediators in the Interplay between Legality, Social Norms and Compliance ( Forthcoming, IS THE LAW IMPORTANT? -- Law, Society and Culture (In Hebrew). (2010)
• Behavioral versus Institutional Antecedents of Decentralized Enforcement: An Experimental Approach (2008) (with Orly Lobel). (2(2) Regulation & Governance, 165-192)
• Social Norms, Self-Interest and Ambiguity: An Experimental Analysis of the Rule vs. Standard Dilemma. (with Alon Harel). Review of Law & Economics (2008)
• Are all Legal Dollars Created Equal (with Doron Teichman). Forthcoming 102:1 Northwestern University Law Review (2008)
• File Sharing Law and Norms, (with Janice Nadler), San Diego Law Review (2006).
• The Behavioral Foundations of Trade Secrets: Tangibility, Authorship and Legality, 3(2) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 197-236 (2006).
• A Psychological Approach to Trade Secrets: Legality, Efficiency and Morality 3 Law and Business, 189-245, 2005 (in Hebrew).
• Some Well-Aged Wines for the "New Norm" Bottles , Implications of Social Psychology to Law and Economics (with Robert J. MacCoun) (Francesco Parisi and Vernon Smith (eds.), The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior (Stanford University Press 2005) (Available online at BE Press- Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley http://repositories.cdlib.org/csls/fwp/6).
• An Experimental Approach to the Study of Normative Failures: Divulging of Trade Secrets by Silicon Valley Employees, 2003(1) Journal of Law, Technology and Policy 105 (2003).
• An Experimental Approach to the Study of Social Norms: The Distribution of Intellectual Property in the Workplace, 10 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 59 (2002).
• Symposium: The Varieties Of Therapeutic Experience Excerpts From The Second International Conference On Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Control or Security: A Therapeutic Approach To The Freedom Of Contract, 18 Touro L. Rev. 503 (2002)

Non-Refereed Publications

• The Incentive Matrix (with Orly Lobel) Innovations 2010
• Are All Legal Probabilities created Equal (With Doron Teichman) NYU Legal Workshop 2010
• Introduction to symposium on Law and Social Norms, Review of Law and Economics, 2009 (with Ben Deporter)
• National Report on the Regulation of Triangular Relationships in Israel (with Ronit Nadiv), Forthcoming in the proceedings of XVIII World Congress of Labor and Social Security Law, Paris, September 2006.
• Attitudes and Behavior, to appear in the Law and Psychology Section of the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, Sage Publications 2006.

Revise and Resubmit 

• Mandated Justice: The potential promise and possible pitfalls of mandating procedural justice (with Tom Tyler)
• Motivating Environmental Action in a Pluralistic Regulatory Environment (with Oren Perez) 
  

Work in Progress / Data Collected

• Justice, Solidarityu and Self-interest in the Israeli Workplace  (with Shani Ron)
• Entitlement, Adaptaion and Voice in the Workplace (with Tom Tyler)
• Immunity of Civilians at War: Behavioral and Moral Perspectives (With Itschak Benbaji and Amir Falk, ISF funded)
• Folk moral intuitions regarding Police vs. Military Rules of Engagement in the war on crime and terror (With Itschak Benbaji and Amir Falk, ISF funded)
• Honesty, Flexibility and Compliance (With Gideon Parchomovsky )
• Incentivizing innovation and extra role activity - the paradox of "within the scope of employment" (with Orly Lobel)
• Immunity of Civilians at War: Behavioral and Moral Perspectives (With Itschak Benbaji, ISF funded

Work in Progress / Design Stage

• Taking Contractual Interpretaion to the lab (with Doron Teichman and Amos Schur) 
• Ambiguity, Dual Process Legal Reasoning and Corruption (with Mazarin Banaji and Sabrina Sun) 
• The Optimal Specificity of Law (with Henry Smith) 
• Legal Vagueness, Ethicality and Organizational Performance (with Francesca Gino and Mike Norton) 
• Deterrence, Fear, Anger and the Rule of Law (with Jenifer Lerner)
• Exploring the Variation in the discriminatory mindset of employers (with Tammy Kricheli-Katz)

Dissertation Topic

Confidential Know-How Sharing and Trade-Secrets Laws: Studying the Interaction between Legality, Social Norms and Justice among High-Tech Employees in Silicon Valley (available online through Proquest). Dissertation Committee: Robert D. Cooter (co-chair); Robert J. MacCoun (co-chair); Philip E. Tetlock.

International Conferences and Workshops

• Motivating Environmental Action in an Heterogeneous Regulatory Environment: Framing, Crowding out and Institutional Effects (With Oren Perez)
  Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Law and Economics, U Amsterdam June 2011
  
• Are all Contractual Obligations Created Equal? (with Doron Teichman)
  --Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Yale, November 2010
  --A joint ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, University of St. Gallen and University f Lucerne Law and Economics Workshop. February 2011
  Lucerne Law and Economics Workshop. February 2011
• The Incentives Matrix: Experimental Studies of the Comparative Effectiveness of Enforcement Systems (with Orly Lobel) in
  --- Yale-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, Yale, June 2010
  --- American Law and Economics Association, Princeton, May 2010
  --- Building Theory through Empirical Legal Studies, UC Berkeley, April 2009
• Decentralized Enforcement techniques (with Orly Lobel) Law& Society Annual Meeting, Chicago May 2010
• The Complexity of Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic compliance Motivations: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from the Behavioral Analysis of Law Washington U at St. Louis Round Table on For Love or Money, March 2010.
• Legal Uncertainty as an Authenticity Enhancing Device (with Shachar Lifshitz) Behavioral Analysis of Law (Haifa U) Dec 2009
• What Employees really want (with Amir Falk and Miri Katz) Empirical Legal Studies Conference, TAU March 2009
  -- Law& Society Annual Meeting, Chicago May 2010)
• How Law Changes the Environmental Mind: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Legal Norms on Moral Perceptions and Civic Enforcement (With Oren Perez) ILSA, Hebrew U, December 2008,
• Are all Legal Probabilities Created Equal (with Doron Teichman). Empirical and Behavioral Analysis of Criminal law, Hebrew U May 2008.
  -- Boston University Law and Economics Workshop, September 2008,
  -- European Law and Economics, Rome, Sept. 2009 (Doron)
  -- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin,September 2009
  -- Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, Bonn, September 2009
• Mandated Justice: The potential promise and possible pitfalls of mandating procedural justice (with Tom Tyler) Empirical Legal Studies Annual Conference (Cornell U, September 2008)
  -- American Law and Society Association (McGill U, May 2008) (Tom)
  -- Hebrew U 2010.
• Decentralized Enforcement in the Workplace: An Experimental Analysis of the interrelationship between the State, the Organization and the Individual Employee (with Orly Lobel). American Law and Society Association- Workshop on Regulation Humboldt University (Berlin July 2007)
• The Misperception of Norms: The Psychology of Bias and the Economics of Equilibrium (with Robert D. Cooter, Michal Feldman,) http://works.bepress.com/robert_cooter/138 American Law and Economics Association, Harvard University (May 2007) (Bob)
• Are all Legal Dollars Created Equal (with Doron Teichman).
  --- Euro-Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Berlin July 2007)
• Social Norms and Legal Ambiguity: An Experimental Analysis of the Rule vs. Standard Dilemma. (with Alon Harel)
  --- Behavioral and Experimental Law and Economics, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, June 2006
  --- Max Plank Institute for the Study of Collective Goods, Bonn Germany January 2007]
• The Expressive Function of the Law: Legality, Cost, Intrinsic Motivation and Consensus, First Conference of Empirical Legal Studies, U of Texas at Austin, (October 2006)
• XVIII World Congress on Labor law and Social Security, Sorbonne, Paris (September 2006)
• The Behavioral Foundations of Trade Secrets: Tangibility, Authorship and Legality, IP in the Workplace, IDC (December 2005)
• Behavioral and Social Mechanisms that Undermine Legality in the Workplace: Examining The Efficacy of Trade-Secrets Laws Among Knowledge Workers in Silicon Valley,
  --- Workshop on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property LIUC, Italy (July 2005)
  --- Law and Society 10th Summer Institution , Berkeley (July 2003)]
• The Behavioral Foundations of Trade Secrets: Tangibility, Authorship and Legality. Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago (May 2004)
• The Behavioral Foundations of the Expressive Function of the Law, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago (May 2004)
• ‘Old Wine for the "New" Norms Literature, The Social Psychology of Social Norms and Legal Compliance, The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior, George Mason University (November 2002)
• ‘An Experimental Approach to the Study of Normative Failures: Divulging of Trade Secrets by Silicon Valley Employees, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting University of British Columbia, (June 2002)
• Perceptions of Human Capital, Normative Control and Fairness: An Experimental Approach to Silicon Valley Trade-Secret Practices. Presented in Law, Economics and Psychology, UC Berkeley (April 2002)
• ‘Control or Security , Therapeutic Approach to the Freedom of Contracts", Second International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence, University of Cincinnati, (May 2001)
• 'Motivational Jurisprudence and legal Policy' The Society of Psychological Study of Social Issues, Annual Meeting, University of Minnesota, (June 2000)

Courses

Employment/labor law; IP in the Workplace; Law and Psychology; Behavioral Analysis of law; Law and Rationality, Research Methods

Professional Memberships

Law and Society Association; The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Israeli Bar. Empirical Legal Studies

Academic Activities

2009 Co-Organizer (with Oren Perez) International workshop on Regulation (Funded by the ISF)

2006 Co-organizer (with Alon Harel) International Conference on Social Norms and Legal compliance (Funded by the EU)

2005-2010 Member of Graduate Program Committee

2010-2011 Member of the Hiring Committee

Graduate Students

Sima Kremer

Lior Mashaali (with Shachar Lifsits)
Adi Ben Zeev (with Talia Fisher)
Shlomo Neuman (with Ariel Bandor)
Maya Cohen-Friedman
Irit Harmal

References:

Prof. Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley (Law and Economics)

Prof. Alon Harel, Hebrew U/Boston U  (Law)

Prof. Robert J. MacCoun, UC Berkeley (Public Policy)

Prof. Tom Tyler, NYU (Psychology)

Prof. Alex Stein, Cardozo (Law)