Ronen Avraham
- Thomas Shelton Maxey Professorship
- 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.
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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-2009
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Texas-Style Caps on Noneconomic Damages isn't Smart Tort Reform
Ronen Avraham, Charles M. Silver, David A. Hyman. “Texas-Style Caps on Noneconomic Damages isn't Smart Tort Reform.” (Star-Telegram, July 18, 2012). -
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Private Regulation of Medicine: A Win-Win-Win for Doctors, Patients and Public
Ronen Avraham. “Private Regulation of Medicine: A Win-Win-Win for Doctors, Patients and Public.” In The Huffington Post, (Updated: May 25, 2011). View online. -
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Does Tort Reform Reduce Health Care Costs?
Ronen Avraham, Does Tort Reform Reduce Health Care Costs?, 3 NBER Bulletin on Aging & Health 1 (2009) (with Leemore Dafny & Max Schanzenbach). View article
year-2008
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Tragedy of the Human Commons
Ronen Avraham, Tragedy of the Human Commons, 29 Cardozo Law Review 15 (2008) (with K.A.D. Camara). [Reprinted in 1 Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review 15 (2008).] View article
year-2007
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An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments
Ronen Avraham. “An Empirical Study of the Impact of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Settlement Payments.” In 36 Journal of Legal Studies S183, (2007). -
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The Tragedy of the Human Commons
Ronen Avraham, Kiwi Camara, The Tragedy of the Human Commons, 29 (2) Cardozo Law Review 479-511 (2007). (Reprinted in Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review, vol 1(1), Sept. 2008.)
year-2006
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Book Review
To the Editor
Ronen Avraham, To the Editor, 355 New England Journal of Medicine 735 (2006) (reviewing Studdert DM, Mello MM, Gawande AA, et al. Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation, 354 New England Journal of Medicine 2024). View article -
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Putting a Price on Pain-and-Suffering Damages: A Critique of the Current Approaches and a Preliminary Proposal for Change
Ronen Avraham, Putting a Price on Pain-and-Suffering Damages: A Critique of the Current Approaches and a Preliminary Proposal for Change, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 87 (2006). [Reprinted in 55 Defense Law Journal 711 (2006).] View article -
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Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive v. Optional Remedies
Ronen Avraham, Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Exclusive v. Optional Remedies, 8 American Law and Economics Review 523 (2006) (with Zhiyong Liu). View article -
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Arrangements for Liquidated Damages in the New Proposed Civil Legislation
Ronen Avraham, Arrangements for Liquidated Damages in the New Proposed Civil Legislation, 4 Law & Business 389 (2006). -
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Accident Law for Egalitarians
Ronen Avraham, Accident Law for Egalitarians, 12 Legal Theory 181 (2006) (with Issa Kohler Housmann). View article
year-2005
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Should Pain-and-Suffering Damages be Abolished from Tort Law? More Experimental Evidence
Ronen Avraham, Should Pain-and-Suffering Damages be Abolished from Tort Law? More Experimental Evidence, 55 University of Toronto Law Journal 941 (2005). View article -
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Modular Liability Rules
Ronen Avraham, Modular Liability Rules, 24 International Review of Law and Economics 269 (2005). View article
year-2004
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Revisiting the Roles of Legal Rules and Tax Rules in Income Redistribution: A Response to Kaplow & Shavell
Ronen Avraham, Revisiting the Roles of Legal Rules and Tax Rules in Income Redistribution: A Response to Kaplow & Shavell, 89 Iowa Law Review 1125 (2004) (with David Fortus & Kyle Logue). View article
year-2003
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Redistributing Optimally: Of Tax Rules, Legal Rules, and Insurance
Ronen Avraham, Redistributing Optimally: Of Tax Rules, Legal Rules, and Insurance 56 Tax Law Review 157 (2003) (with Kyle Logue). View article