Ehud Guttel
Professor of Law
Professor Guttel studied law at the Hebrew University where he earned his LL.B in 1997, graduating as valedictorian of his class (summa cum laude). After clerking for Justice Mishael Cheshin at the Israeli Supreme Court, and serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Hebrew University Law Journal, Professor Guttel completed his graduate studies at the Yale Law School, where he earned his LL.M in 2000, and his J.S.D in 2002. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Lionel Cohen Award as valedictorian of the Law School (1998), a Fulbright Grant (2000-2002) and the Birk Prize of Academic Excellence (2003). As of 2007 Professor Guttel holds the Cardinal Cody Chair in Law.
Professor Guttel's recent publications include: Negligence and Insufficient Activity: The Missing Paradigm in Torts (with D. Gilo) MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW (forthcoming); Cognitive Biases and Moral Luck (with D. Enoch), JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY (forthcoming);Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction (with A. Harel) 107 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 467-501 (2008); The (Hidden) Risk of Opportunistic Precautions 93 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1389-1435 (2007); Less Crime, More (Vulnerable) Victims: Game Theory and the Distributional Effects of Criminal Sanctions (with B. Medina) 3 REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 407-435 (2007); Matching Probabilities: The Behavioral Law & Economics of Repeated Behavior (with A. Harel) 72 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 1197-1236 (2005); Overcorrection, 93 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 241-283 (2004); A New Approach to Old Cases: Reconsidering Statutes of Limitation (with M. Novick) 54 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW JOURNAL 129-182 (2004).