Yonathan A. Arbel
William Alfred Rose Professor of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
Yonathan Arbel is the William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on contracts, commercial and consumer law, artificial intelligence and the law, and law & economics, using doctrinal, empirical, and socio-legal methods to study private legal obligations and market institutions.
At Alabama, he also directs AI-studies initiatives and co-founded the Center for Law & AI Risk.
Before joining the University of Alabama faculty, Arbel was a postdoctoral fellow in private law at Harvard Law School and a visiting assistant professor of law at Villanova University. He also taught economic analysis of contract law in the Harvard University economics department and served as a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute.
Earlier in his career, he clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel and founded an international consulting firm, where he advised governments, law firms, and trade organizations on contract design and commercial arrangements.
His distinctions include the American College of Consumer Financial Services’ writing-competition award and selection as a “Rising Stars in Legal Academia” honoree. He was also an Olin fellow and a Byse fellow at Harvard Law School.
Arbel earned a doctoral degree in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, a master’s in law (J.S.M.) from Stanford Law School, and a joint law-and-humanities degree, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
