Omri Ben-Shahar

Omri Ben-Shahar (born 1962) is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law, and Kearney Director and founder of the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to his tenure at University of Chicago in 2008, Ben-Shahar was the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Michigan, and was the founder and director of the Olin Center for Law and Economics from 1999 to 2008.

Ben-Shahar is an expert in contracts, sales, trademark law, insurance law, consumer law, e-commerce, food law, law and economics, and game theory and the law. He writes primarily in the fields of contract law and consumer protection. One of the prominent pioneers of big data and law, his current research involves the use of big data in regulatory and market solutions to social and jurisprudential problems. Ben-Shahar is the most cited active scholar of commercial law in the United States. Provided by Wikipedia