Ronen Avraham
- Senior Lecturer
Ronen Avraham’s teaching and scholarship focus on medical malpractice, torts and tort reform, law and economics, and insurance law. His recent primary research interests have been in the economic analysis of torts and health care law. Professor Avraham created and published the "Database of State Tort Law Reform," a comprehensive and complete dataset listing the most prevalent state tort law reforms from 1980 to 2012.
Featured Work
Dsltr 7.1 regular
AREAS OF EXPERTISE Medical Malpractice, Torts, Tort Reform, Law and Economics, Insurance Law,
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS Prof Avraham was the Assistant and then Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University for the academic years 2003-7. He taught a course in Torts and Insurance law and co-lead the Law and Economics Colloquium. Prior to that Prof Avraham served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University for the academic year 2002-3 where he taught a course in Insurance Law and a seminar in Distributive Justice. Prof Avraham served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan Universities where he instructed on Distributive Justice and Economic Analysis of Law. In 2001 Prof Avraham visited The University of Michigan Law School as a Lecturer. He co-taught (with Jim Krier)a seminar in Behavioral Econ and served as a lecturer(with Kyle Logue) in a Distributive Justice in the Law seminar.
Ronen Avraham's primary research interests in 2016 are in economic analysis of torts and healthcare law. In addition he writes about insurance discrimination and third party litigation funding.
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year-2021
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Other Publication
Dsltr 7.1 regular
Ronen Avraham, Dsltr 7.1 regular, (October 27, 2021)
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The Mysterious Market for Post-Settlement Litigant Finance
Ronen Avraham, Lynn A. Baker, Anthony J. Sebok. “The Mysterious Market for Post-Settlement Litigant Finance.” In 96 N.Y.U. Law Review Online, Page 181 (2021). View online. -
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The MDL Revolution and Consumer Legal Funding
Ronen Avraham, Lynn A. Baker, Anthony J. Sebok. “The MDL Revolution and Consumer Legal Funding.” In 40 Review of Litigation, Page 143 (2021).
year-2019
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Regulating Pharmaceutical Companies’ Financial Largesse
Ronen Avraham, Charles M. Silver. “Regulating Pharmaceutical Companies’ Financial Largesse.” In 7 Israeli J. Health Policy Res., (December 1, 2019). -
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Effects of Admissibility
Abraham Lee Wickelgren, Third Party Litigation Funding with Informative Signals: Equilibrium Characterization and the Effects of Admissibility (with Ronen Avraham), 61 Journal of Law and Economics 637-675 (2019).
year-2018
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From PI to IP: Litigation Response to Tort Reform
Ronen Avraham & John M. Golden, From PI to IP: Litigation Response to Tort Reform, 20 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 168–213 (2018).
year-2017
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Valuing Black Lives: A Constitutional Challenge to the Use of Race-Based Table in Calculating Tort Damages (forthcoming)
Ronen Avraham, Kimberly Yuracko. “Valuing Black Lives: A Constitutional Challenge to the Use of Race-Based Table in Calculating Tort Damages (forthcoming).” In California Law Review, (2018). -
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Tort Reform in Texas Changed Delivery of Medical Services
Ronen Avraham. “Tort Reform in Texas Changed Delivery of Medical Services.” In Southwest Economy - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, (July 31, 2017). -
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Estimating Pain-And-Suffering Damages (forthcoming)
Ronen Avraham, . “Estimating Pain-And-Suffering Damages (forthcoming).” In The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, (2017). -
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Third Party Litigation Funding (forthcoming)
Ronen Avraham, Third Party Litigation Funding (forthcoming), 20 Law & Business (2017) PP 131 - 191, in Hebrew.
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Medical Malpractice (forthcoming)
Ronen Avraham, Max Schanzenbach. “Medical Malpractice (forthcoming).” In The Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, (2017). -
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Torts and Discrimination
Ronen Avraham, Kimberly Yuracko, Torts and Discrimination, 78 Ohio St. L.J., (2017).
year-2016
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The Optimal Scope of Physicians’ Duty to Protect Patients’ Privacy
Ronen Avraham, The Optimal Scope of Physicians’ Duty to Protect Patients’ Privacy, 100 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 30 (2016) (with Joachim Meyer). -
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Forward to Economics of Health Law (Economic Approached to Law Series)
Ronen Avraham, Charles M. Silver, David Hyman, Forward to Economics of Health Law (Economic Approached to Law Series) (Two Volume Set) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) pp1320.
year-2015
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Towards a Universal Framework for Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws
Ronen Avraham, Towards a Universal Framework for Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws, 21 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 1 (2015) (with Kyle D. Logue & Daniel Schwarcz). View article -
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Decoding Cooter and Porat: A Discussion of Getting Incentives Right
Ronen Avraham, Decoding Cooter and Porat: A Discussion of Getting Incentives Right, 12 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 183 (2015). View article
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Does the Theory of Insurance Support Awarding Pain and Suffering Damages in Torts?
Ronen Avraham, Does the Theory of Insurance Support Awarding Pain and Suffering Damages in Torts:, Research Handbook on the Economics of Insurance Law (Schwarcz and Siegelman, Ed.) (2015).
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The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients
Ronen Avraham, Max Schanzenbach, The Impact of Tort Reform on Intensity of Treatment: Evidence from the Heart Patients, 39 Journal of Health Economics 273-288 (2015).
year-2014
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Third-Party Litigation Funding – A Signaling Model
Ronen Avraham, Third-Party Litigation Funding – A Signaling Model, 63 DePaul Law Review 233 (2014) (with Abraham Wickelgren). View article -
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Overlooked and Underused: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Malpractice Liability for Independent Physicians
Ronen Avraham, Overlooked and Underused: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Malpractice Liability for Independent Physicians, 20 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 273 (2014). View article
spring 2026
- Insurance
- SMNR: Law and Economics