Amitai Aviram studies the role of law in manipulating perceptions and the mechanisms of norm enforcement in private legal systems, using analytical tools from the field of law & economics (in particular behavioral economics). Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, he taught at Florida State University and George Mason University, and was a John M. Olin Scholar of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago. Before entering academia, Professor Aviram served at the Israeli Antitrust Authority and at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He was also an officer in the Israeli Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. In that capacity, he was involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Professor Aviram was educated at the University of Chicago Law School (J.S.D., 2003; LL.M., 2000) and Tel-Aviv University School of Law (LL.B., 1995).
Antitrust Law
Overcoming Impediments to Information Sharing (with Avishalom Tor), Alabama Law Review (2004)
When deciding whether to share information, firms consider their private welfare. Discrepancies between social and...
Cyclical Market Power, Israel Law Review (2002)
This paper examines temporal aspects of market power. It explores an industry – the Israeli...
Corporate Law
Counter-Cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law, Yale Journal on Regulation (2008)
Corporate and securities laws are seen to mitigate corporate fraud by manipulating the incentives of...
In Defense of Imperfect Compliance Programs, FSU Law Review (Symposium) (2005)
In Organizational Misconduct: Beyond the Principal-Agent Model, Professor Krawiec argues that organizations have perverse incentives...
Effects of Law on Risk Perception
Counter-Cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law, Yale Journal on Regulation (2008)
Corporate and securities laws are seen to mitigate corporate fraud by manipulating the incentives of...
Bias Arbitrage, Washington & Lee Law Review (2007)
The production of law – including the choice of a law’s subject matter, the timing...
The Placebo Effect of Law, George Washington Law Review (2006)
Much of legal scholarship, and in particular Law and Economics, evaluates law and predicts its...
In Defense of Imperfect Compliance Programs, FSU Law Review (Symposium) (2005)
In Organizational Misconduct: Beyond the Principal-Agent Model, Professor Krawiec argues that organizations have perverse incentives...
Enforcement Mechanisms of Private Ordering
Network Responses to Network Threats: The Evolution Into Private Cyber-Security Associations, The Law and Economics of Cyber-Security (2005)
The enforcement of certain norms on network participants – such as norms supporting information exchange...
A Paradox of Spontaneous Formation: The Evolution of Private Legal Systems, Yale Law & Policy Review (2004)
Scholarship on private legal systems (PLS) explains the evolution of norms created and enforced by...
Overcoming Impediments to Information Sharing (with Avishalom Tor), Alabama Law Review (2004)
When deciding whether to share information, firms consider their private welfare. Discrepancies between social and...
Regulation by Networks, BYU Law Review (2003)
The Private Ordering literature examines how non-government institutions mitigate opportunistic behavior in transactions. It emphasizes...