Dr. Yehuda Adar

Professor Adar is regarded by many as the leading Civil Remedies expert in the Israeli legal academia. His primary areas of research include Civil Remedies, Torts, Contracts, Consumer law and Private Law Theory, topics on which he has published in American, Canadian, Israeli, European, and Italian Law Journals. He is the primary co-author of the leading Israeli treatise on contract remedies (2009, Hebrew). This work is regularly cited by the Israeli Supreme Court (around 80 cases in the past decade) and the other courts (around 800 cases in total). Adar has served as member of the Standard Form Tribunal, Editor-in-Chief of the Haifa Law Review, and expert witness in Arbitrations before the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration) and the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce). He serves regularly as academic advisor for leading Israeli law journals and has recently advised the Yale Law Journal.

Books

• Theoretical Inquiries in Contract – Essays in Honor of Gabriela Shalev (Din-Udvarim Law Review & Nevo Publishing), (2021) (Hebrew) – Editor In Chief (Aharon Barak & Efi Zemach co-editors).
• Contract Law – The Remedies: Towards Codification of the Civil Law,  (2009) (Hebrew).(with Gabriela Shalev)
• The Punitive Award as a Sanction in Contract, Ph.D. Dissertation, (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (in hebrew).

Articles

• Negligence Without Harm, 111 Georgetown Law Journal, 187-235 (2022) (with Ronen Perry).
• Ending The License To Exploit: Administrative Oversight Of Consumer Contracts , 62 Boston College law Review, 2045-2461 (2022) (with Shmuel I. Becher).
• Administrative Control and Consumer Exploitation in Standard Form Contracts, The Regulatory Review (A Publication of the Penn Program on Regulation) Opinion  (2021) (with Shmuel I. Becher).
• Law of Contracts, Ch. 4 in The Israeli Legal System, 69-86  (NOMOS) (B. Medina, C. Walter, L. Scholz & H.B Wabnitz eds.) (Hart Publishing, 2019).
• A Glance at the Work of a Legal Artist: Tribute to the Grand Master of Israeli Legal Academia, 67  (University of Siena Law Journal Studi Senesi) 252-268 (2018).
• The CISG in Israel, Ch. 31 in International Sales Law: The Global Challenge, 518-538 (Larry Di-Matteo ed., Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• L’Influenza della Cultura Giuridica Italiana sul Diritto di Israele (The Influence of Italian Legal Culture over Israeli Law) (with Pietro sirena) in Il Modello Giuridico – Scientifico E Legislativo – Italiano Fuori Dell’Europa 3-10 (Sabrina Lanni & Pietro Sirena eds. Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane , Napoli 2013) (Italian).
• La Dialettica di Principi e Regole nel Diritto Europeo dei Contratti: dal PECL al CESL e Oltre (Principles and Rules in the European Law of Contract: From PECL to CESL and Beyond), (with Pietro sirena) 2 Osservatorio Di Diritto civile E Commerciale 203-234 (2013) [The Civil & Commercial Law Observer] (Italian).
• Comparative Negligence and Mitigation of Damages – Two Sister Doctrines in Search of Reunion, 31 Quinnipiac Law Review 783-842 (2013).
• Contract Remedies – In A Relational Perspective, (with Moshe Gelbard) Ch. 11 in The Organisational Contract 269-292 (Ashgate 2013).
• Principles and Rules in the Emerging European Contract Law: From the PECL to the CESL, and Beyond,  9 European Review Of Contract Law 1-37 (2013) (with Pietro Sirena).
• La Prospettiva dei Rimedi nel Diritto Privato Europeo (Remedies as An Emerging Concept in European Private Law),58 Rivista di Diritto Civile 359-387 (2012) ( Italian) (with Pietro Sirena).
• Touring the Punitive Damages Forest: A Proposed Roadmap, 1 Osservatorio Di Diritto Civile E Commerciale 275-322 (2012).
• The Role of Remedies in the Relational Theory of Contract – A Preliminary Inquiry,  7 European Review of Contract Law 399-424 (2011) (with Moshe Gelbard).
• Legal Engineering in Israeli law: Codification and Unification of the Law of Remedies, 64 Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law 69-85 (2009).
• The Law of Remedies in a Mixed Jurisdiction: The Israeli Experience,  23 Tulane European &Civil Law Forum 111-141 (2008) (with Gabriela Shalev).
• Whiten v. Pilot Ins.Co: The Unofficial Death of the Independent Wrong Requirement and Official Birth of Punitive Damages in Contract, 41 Canadian Business Law Journal 247-278 (2005).
• Wrongful Abortion: a Wrong in Search of a Remedy, 5 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law &Ethics 507-586 (2005)  (with Ronen Perry).

Articles in Hebrew

• דיני המסוימות – מכאוס לעקיבות: מסוימות והשלמה מהותית – הילכו שתיים יחדיו? משפטים נא  1031-953 (התשפ”ב-2022).
• מסוימות וגמירת דעת – הילכו שתיים בנפרד? משפטים נא 79-5 (התשפ”א-2021).
• קרן אור על אינטרס ההסתמכות ספר אור 395-343 (אהרון ברק ורון סוקול עורכים) (התשע”ג-2013).
• הצעת חוק החוזים האחידים (תיקון מס’ 4): עיון ביקורתי (עם משה גלברד) חוקים ה 178-99 (התשע”ג-2013).
• השבה, פיצויים, צירוף תרופות וחופש חוזים – עיון בדיני התרופות לאור ע”א 4630/04 קניונים נכסים ובנין בע”מ נ’ בני יעקב נדל”ן בע”מ (עם משה גלברד) משפטים מ 886-827 (התשע”א-2011).
• מגמות ותנודות בדין החוזים הכללי – ישראל 2010 דין ודברים ו 84-41 (התשע”א-2011).
• אינטרס ההסתמכות – מיתוס או מציאות? עורך הדין גיליון 7, 85-82 (התש”ע-2010).
• הקטנת נזק ואשם תורם – הילכו שניים יחדיו? משפט ועסקים י 421-381 (התש”ע-2010).
• פיצויים עונשיים בתביעה אזרחית נגררת להרשעה בפלילים (עם רונן פרי) בדלתיים פתוחות 44-43 ( התשס”ח-2008).
• מדוע נכון לאחד את התרופות בחוזים ובנזיקין? תשובה לפרופ’ דגן משפטים לו 412-357 (התשס”ו-2006).
• על הדבש ועל העוקץ – הרהורים על פרק התרופות בהצעת הקודקס האזרחי משפט ועסקים ה 409-357 (התשס”ו-2006).
• תרופות בשל הפרת חיוב – מבט על פרק התרופות בהצעת הקודקס האזרחי החדש (עם גבריאלה שלו) קרית המשפט ו 232-185 (התשס”ו-2006).

• LLB (magna cum laude), The Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, 1997.
• LLD (within the Special Direct Program to L.L.D), The Hebrew University, Faculty of Law, 2004.
• Postdoctoral Studies, The University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Research in the fields of Legal Theory and Private Law, Prof. Ernest Weinrib, Supervisor 2004.

Guest post in ContractsProf Blog on Consumer Contracts