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.
Prof. Roy Kreitner
Faculty of Law
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Biography
Research Interests and Teaching
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Private Law Theory; Contracts; Legal History; History and Theory of Money. |
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| 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)
