Prof. Yuval Procaccia

Telephone
03-5317091
Email
yuval.procaccia@biu.ac.il
Office
Building 305, Room 116
Fields of Interest

Economic Analysis of Law, Contract Law, Tort Law

Short Biography

Yuval Procaccia specializes in law and economics, with a focus on contract law and tort law. He holds an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, as well as an M.A. in Economics and a joint LL.B./B.A. in Law and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel for Justice Dalia Dorner. At Harvard he was a Fulbright Fellow and a research fellow at the Olin Center for Law Economics and Business and at the Program on Negotiation. His research has been published in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Publications

  • “Preventing Class Action Sellouts” (with Ittai Paldor and Eyal Winter), 54 Journal of Legal Studies 453 (2025)

  • “The Laws of the Unreasonable Victim: Care, Mitigation, and Strategic Deferral” (with Ehud Guttel), 75 University of Toronto Law Journal 176 (2025)

  • “Double Liability for a Single Harm: On the Tripartite Relationship – Tortfeasor, Victim and Insurer (with Assaf Jacob), 54 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal (2025).

  • “Remedies and Incentives in Employment Law: Contributory Fault, Causation, and Punitive Damages”, 53 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal (2025).

  • “Contract Damages”, in The Encyclopedia of Law & Economics (Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds., 2025)

  • “Unenforceable Waivers” (with Edward K. Cheng and Ehud Guttel), 76 Vanderbilt Law Review 571 (2023).

  • “General Courts, Specialized Courts, and the Complementarity Effect” (with Ehud Guttel and Alon Harel), 17 Regulation & Governance 1021 (2023).

  • “Sequencing in Damages” (with Edward K. Cheng and Ehud Guttel), 74 Stanford Law Review 353 (2022).

  • “Liability-Creating Fault and Contributory Fault - Theory and Doctrine” (with Ehud Guttel and Galia Schneebaum), 52 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal 27 (2022).

  • “On the Theory of the Law of Gifts”, 15 Haifa Law Review  (Din U’Dvarim) 661 (2022).

  • “Shared Liability and Excessive Care” (with Ehud Guttel and Eyal Winter), 37 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 358 (2021) (lead author).

  • “Coordinated or Complementary? Tort Law and the High Court of Justice” (with Ehud Guttel and Liat Dasht), 50 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal 713 (2021).

  • “Victim Fault: Contributory Negligence, Avoidable Consequences, and the Law of Torts” (with Ehud Guttel), 50 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal 5 (2020).

  • “On Misclassifications, Efficient Deterrence, and the Law of Employment”, 43 I’yunei Mishpat, Tel Aviv University Law Review 171 (2020).

  • “Remedies for Uncertain Harm to Property” (with Assaf Jacob and Ronit Levine-Schnur), 22 Israel Journal of Law and Business 301 (2019). 

  • “Landlord-Tenant Law in the Shadow of the Social Justice Protest” (with Ronit Levine-Schnur), 49 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal 79 (2019). 

    • Reprinted as: “Freedom of Contract or the Freedom to Legislate: Following the Mandatory Regulation of the Lease Contract”, in Studies in the Theory of Contracts - Volume in Honor of Gabriela Shalev (Aharon Barak, Yehuda Adar, Efi Zemach, ed., 2021).

  • “More on the Rental Fairness Law” (with Ronit Levine Schnur), 12 Mishpatim Online 203 (2019). 

  • “In-Kind Transfers and the Law of Torts” (with Alon Klement and Assaf Jacob), 47 Journal of Legal Studies 181 (2018). 

  • “Consumer Fraud, Misrepresentation and Reliance” (with Alon Klement and Zvika Neeman), 54 International Review of Law and Economics 95 (2018).

  • “On the Economic Effects of Disobeyed Regulation in Employment Law” (with Alon Harel and Ilana Ritov), 13 Review of Law and Economics (2017). 

  • “Reliance, Causation and Harm in Consumer Class Actions” (with Alon Klement), 37 I’yunei Mishpat, Tel Aviv University Law Review 7 (2014). 

  • “Revisiting the Efficiency Theory of Non-Contemplated Contingencies in Contract Law”, 26 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 415 (2013). 

  • “On the Optimal Regulation of Unread Contracts” (with Alon Harel), 8 Review of Law and Economics 59 (2012). 

  • “Remedies for Misrepresentation: An Economic Analysis”, 43 Mishpatim, The Hebrew University Law Journal 251 (2012).

  • “The Economics of Contract Law” (with Omri Ben Shahar), in The Economic Approach to Law (Uriel Procaccia, ed., 2012) (70 pages, in Hebrew).

Last Updated Date : 18/02/2026