Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, and Kearney Director and founder of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.
Before joining the University of Chicago in 2008, Ben-Shahar was the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Michigan, and was the founder and director of the Olin Center for Law and Economics from 1999 to 2008. He taught at Tel-Aviv University, was a member of Israel’s Antitrust Court and clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel.
Ben-Shahar earned his PhD in economics and SJD from Harvard in 1995 and his bachelor’s and LLB from the Hebrew University in 1990.
