Tal Kastner’s teaching and research interests include contracts, property, corporations, law and literature, and the operation of legal language in social and historical context. She has published articles in student edited law reviews—including the Georgetown Law Journal and SMU Law Review, among others—and in peer-reviewed journals, including Law & Social Inquiry, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and Law and Literature, among others, as well as book chapters, including publications by Oxford University Press and Routledge, and opinion pieces in the press. She is working on a book project on boilerplate in American law and literature and the role of standard contract language in shaping the idea and experience of freedom in the United States.

Prior to joining the Touro Law Center, Professor Kastner was the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business at New York University School of Law from 2019-2021 and an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law from 2016-2019. She has taught as a Lecturer at Princeton University, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY). She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow of Law and Interdisciplinary Studies at Cardozo Law School. 

Following law school, Professor Kastner practiced as a transactional associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and served as a law clerk for President Aharon Barak and Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel. She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a PhD from Princeton (English), and a B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania.