Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo & Eileen Herzel Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and the Kearny Director of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics.

Ben-Shahar writes and teaches in the areas of contract law, consumer law, law and AI, insurance law, trademark law, food law, and law-and-economics. He also writes a regular column for Forbes.

Prior to joining the University of Chicago, Ben-Shahar was the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Michigan (1998-2008), and an assistant professor of economics and law at Tel-Aviv University (1995-1998).

Ben-Shahar is the co-author of "Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People" (with Ariel Porat, Oxford University Press, 2021), and "More Than You Wanted To Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure" (with Carl Schneider, Princeton Press 2014). He is presently working on a book manuscript titled "Why Fear Data" (expected 2025, under contract with Harvard University Press).

Ben-Shahar served as a Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts (2012-2023, with Oren Bar-Gill and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler).

Ben-Shahar is married to Sarah Clarke and is the father of four (Ziv, Maya, Tom, and Talia). He is an aspiring cook, baker, and coffee roaster. He lives in Hyde Park, Chicago.

Watch Omri Ben-Shahar arguing for the Hamantasch in the UChicago Hillel 75th Latke-Hamantasch debate, December 2021.

Featured Work

Personalized Law: Different Rules for Different People (2021)

More Than You Wanted To Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure (2014)

Recent Publications

Manipulation By Mislaid Priorities

(Working Paper 2021)

Data Pollution (Journal of Legal Analysis 2019)

The Restoration Remedy in Private Law (Columbia Law Review 2019)

The Paradox of Access Justice, And Its Application to Mandatory Arbitration (U. Chi. L. Rev. 2016)