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Orly Lobel

Associate Professor of Law
LL.B. 1998, Tel Aviv University; LL.M. 2000, Harvard (waived for fellowship); S.J.D. 2006, Harvard Law School

Orly Lobel writes and teaches in the areas of employment law, administrative law, legal theory, torts, consumer law and trade secrets. Prior to coming to USD, she taught at Yale Law School and served as a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Kennedy School of Government's Hauser Center for Non-Profit Research, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. A graduate of Tel Aviv University Law School, she clerked on the Israeli Supreme Court and did her graduate studies at Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, she served as an intelligence commander in the Israel Defense Forces. Her current research focuses on new models of law and governance in the context of the new economy, the labor market, privatization and new public management techniques.

Her recent publications include "The Renew Deal: The Fall of Regulation and the Rise of Governance in Contemporary Legal Thought," 89 Minnesota Law Review  342 (2004); "Setting the Agenda for New Governance Research," 89 Minnesota Law Review  498 (2004); "Public Policy Orchestrated Experimentalism in the Regulation of Work," 101 Michigan Law Review  2146 (2003); "Interlocking Regulatory and Industrial Relations: The Governance of Workplace Safety," 57 Administrative Law Review  1071 (2005) (winner of the 2005 Irving Oberman Memorial Award for best paper on a current legal issue in law and governance); "The Four Pillars of Work Law," 104 Michigan Law Review  1539 (2006); and "The Paradox of 'Extra-Legal' Activism: Critical Legal Consciousness and Transformative Politics," 120 Harvard Law Review  937 (2007); "Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations," California Law Review  (forthcoming, 2008); "Behavioral Versus Institutional Antecedents of Decentralized Enforcement: An Experimental Approach," Regulation & Governance  (with Yuval Feldman) (forthcoming, 2008); "Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy," Columbia Law Review  (with On Amir) (forthcoming, 2008).