Prof. Avraham Tabbach

Avraham Tabbach joined TAU Law Faculty in 2004. He serves as the academic director of the Tel-Aviv-Berkeley Executive LLM Program and as an associate editor of the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE). He served also as a board member of the European Association of Law and Economics (2016-2022). In 2006 Tabbach won the Zeltner Prize of Young Scholars. He also won the American Law and Economics Prize for the best paper twice (2017 and 2020). From 2011 to 2013 Tabbach was visiting Amsterdam Center of Law and Economics (ACLE) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Tabbach received his LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1997) and LLM (2000) and JSD (2003) from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow and an Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. He teaches Taxation, Corporate Finance and various courses in Law and Economics. His research focuses on law enforcement, torts, taxation, corporate finance and recently litigation. Tabbach’s recent publications include: "The Option Value of Record-Based Sanctions" (2023) Games and Economic Behavior, 137, pp. 1-22. (with Shmuel Leshem); "Judgment-Contingent Penalties: Signaling in Negative Expected-Value Suits" (forthcoming, 2023) Journal of Legal Studies (with Shay Lavie);  The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment Revisited" (forthcoming 2023) American Law and Economics Review (with Massimo D'Antoni and Tim Friehe).