Prof. Tamar Kricheli-Katz | The Buchmann Faculty of Law

Biography

Tamar Kricheli Katz is an Associate Professor at Tel-Aviv University's Faculty of Law. She earned a PhD from Stanford University's Sociology Department and a JSM from Stanford Law School. Kricheli Katz teaches and conducts research in the fields of discrimination, inequality, empirical legal studies, and contract law. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, PLOS One, and the Journal of Legal Studies. Her work has also been covered in articles by sources such as the New York Times, The Guardian, the LA Times, and the Huffington Post.

Research Interests

markets, inequality and discrimination, sociology of law, the sharing economy.

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Education

2006 - 2012	Stanford University, Department of Sociology, California, USA PhD
2004 - 2005	Stanford University School of Law, California, USA JSM - (Stanford Program in International Legal Studies)
1997 - 2001	Hebrew University Faculty of Law, Israel LL.B. summa cum laude
1997-2001	Hebrew University, Faculty of Humanities, Amirim-Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Israel LL.B. summa cum laude

Academic Appointments

2019	Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
2016-2017	UC Berkeley, Visiting Professor
2012	Buchman Faculty of Law and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Assistant Professor
2011	Stanford University School of Law, California, USA Lecturer

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Representative Publications

Ayres, Ian, Tamar Kricheli‐Katz, and Tali Regev. "Do Languages Generate Future-Oriented Economic Behavior?." Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (Forthcoming 2023).

Hirst, Scott, Kobi Kastiel, and Tamar Kricheli-Katz. "How Much Do Investors Care about Social Responsibility?." Wisconsin Law Review (Forthcoming 2023).

Bitton, Yifat, and Tamar Kricheli‐Katz. "Disparities on the Basis of Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in Road Accident Compensation in Israel." Journal of Law and Courts, (Forthcoming 2023).

Kricheli‐Katz, Tamar, Haggai Porat, and Yuval Feldman. "Are All Types of Discrimination Created Equal?." Law & Psychology Review, (Forthcoming 2023).

Dagan, Hanoch, and Tamar Kricheli-Katz. "Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves." Law & Social Inquiry, (2022): 1-14.

Kricheli-Katz, Tamar, and Tali Regev. "The effect of language on performance: do gendered languages fail women in maths?." NPJ (Nature Partner Journal) science of learning 6, no. 1 (2021): 1-7.

Media Coverage: @Reuters.

Kricheli-Katz, Tamar. "Gender Inequalities in Markets." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 17 (2021): 109-122.

Dagan, Hanoch, Roy Kreitner, and Tamar Kricheli-Katz. "Legal Theory for Legal Empiricists." Law & Social Inquiry 43, no. 2 (2018): 292-318.

Kricheli-Katz, Tamar, Issi Rosen-Zvi, and Neta Ziv. "Hierarchy and Stratification in the Israeli Legal Profession." Law & Society Review 52 (2018): 436.

Kricheli-Katz, Tamar, and Tali Regev. "How many cents on the dollar? Women and men in product markets." Science advances 2, no. 2 (2016): e1500599.

Media Coverage: New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Forbes.

Reviewed at JOTWELL by Eyal Zamir.

Fisher, Talia, Tamar Kricheli‐Katz, Issi Rosen‐Zvi, and Theodore Eisenberg. "He Paid, She Paid: Exploiting Israeli Courts' Rulings on Litigation Costs to Explore Gender Biases." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 13, no. 3 (2016): 536-561.

Ridgeway, Cecilia L., and Tamar Kricheli-Katz. "Intersecting cultural beliefs in social relations: Gender, race, and class binds and freedoms." Gender & Society 27, no. 3 (2013): 294-318.

Kricheli‐Katz, Tamar. "Choice‐Based Discrimination: Labor‐Force‐Type Discrimination Against Gay Men, the Obese, and Mothers." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 10, no. 4 (2013): 670-695.

Kricheli‐Katz, Tamar. "Choice, discrimination, and the motherhood penalty." Law & Society Review 46, no. 3 (2012): 557-587.

Media Coverage: HuffPost (The Blog).

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