Ronen Avraham is a Senior Lecturer at

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and a professor at the Buchmann Faculty of Law at

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

. His primary focus is on the economics of law, specifically healthcare law,

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, and

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. Prior to joining the University of Texas School of Law, Avraham was an Assistant then Associate Professor at

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from 2003 to 2007. Additionally, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

and

Bar-Ilan Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academi ...

Universities where he instructed on Distributive Justice and Economic Analysis of Law. In 2001, he was a lecturer at the

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. Avraham's degrees are: an SJd in 2003 from the University of Michigan School of Law, an

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from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999; an

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in 1998 from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, School of Law, where he was the

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; and an

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in 1998 from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, School of Business Administration. Additionally, Avraham was the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Michigan, School of Law from 2000 to 2001. He clerked for the Honorable Justice Theodore Or,

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. Avraham created and published the Database of State Tort Law Reform (DSTLR), which is currently in its fifth edition. The DSTLR is a comprehensive and complete dataset of the most prevalent state tort law reforms from 1980 to 2012. The database is maintained for use by legal researchers across the globe. It has greatly eased empirical research into the effects of tort reform, and has often been cited in academic papers. Much of Avraham's work has looked at

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and tort reform. In the midst of the 2009-2010 healthcare reform debate, he proposed a system of private regulation for medicine.

References

External links

Avraham Curriculum Vitae

UT Law Faculty PageDSTLR 5thSSRN Author Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Avraham, Ronen Living people American jurists Bar-Ilan University alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni University of Texas faculty 1969 births