Prof. Roy Kreitner

Faculty of Law
מנהלת הפקולטה למשפטים סגל אקדמי בכיר
Prof. Roy Kreitner
Phone: 03-6406505
Fax: 03-6409576
Office: Law School Library, 340

Biography

Roy Kreitner teaches courses on private law, legal history, and law and political thought at the law school, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He received an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.B. and an M.A. (Comparative Literature & Semiotics) from Tel-Aviv University, and an A.B. from Brown University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (Stanford University Press, 2007). During 2009-2010 he was a fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow. In 2010-2011 he was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School.

Research Interests and Teaching

Private Law Theory; Contracts; Legal History; History and Theory of Money. 

CV

Education
2001 SJD, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1997 LL.M. Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1996 M.A. Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of the Humanities (Comparative Literature and Semiotics).
1994 LL.B. Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law.
1988 A.B. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (English Literature and European History). 

 

Academic Appointments

TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW
Professor of Law, 2001 – present (tenured 2006)
 
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, FACULTY OF LAW
Visiting Professor, Fall 2013
 
INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL LAW AND POLICY, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
IGLP Workshop Core Faculty, June 2010; June 2011
 
RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow, 2009-2010
 
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW
Visiting Professor, Spring 2006
 
BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL
Visiting Professor, Spring 2001
 
 
 

Representative Publications

Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (Stanford University Press 2007)

 

Legal History of Money, 8 Annual Review of Law and Social Science​, 415-431, 2012

 

On The New Pluralism in Contract Theory, 45 Suffolk University Law Review, 915-933, 2012

 

Money in the 1890s: The Circulation of Politics, Economics and Law, 1 University of California, Irvine, Law Review, 975-1013, 2011

 

The Character of Legal Theory, 96 Cornell Law Review, 671-691, 2011 (with Hanoch Dagan)

 

Biographing Realist Jurisprudence, 35 Law and Social Inquiry, 765-791, 2010

 

The Jurisprudence of Global Money, 11 Theoretical Inq. Law, 177-208, 2010

 

Fault at the Contract-Tort Interface, 107 Michigan Law Review, 1533 (2009)

 

 

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