Barak Orbach
Barak Orbach is the Robert H. Mundheim Professor of Law & Business at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and serves as the College’s founding director of the Business Law Program. He also serves as a Special Advisor for Arizona International (the University of Arizona’s global affairs arm) and a member of the University of Arizona’s Campus Safety Commission.
Professor Orbach is recognized globally as a thought leader in antitrust and corporate governance. He periodically advises government agencies, companies, boards of directors, investors, and trade associations.
Professor Orbach is a fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, a fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute. Additionally, he is a member of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, where he served as a Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow.
Professor Orbach holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics from Tel Aviv University and master’s and doctorate degrees in law (LLM and SJD) from Harvard Law School. Professor Orbach has been quoted and his research has been featured in numerous media outlets, including The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Law360,NPR, The New York Times, Slate, PBS, Sports Illustrated, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Representative Publications
- Technological Change and Managerial Challenges in the Movie Theater Industry, Journal of Cultural Economics (forthcoming 2020) (with Charles Weinberg et al.)
- Antitrust in the Shadow of Market Disruptions, 34(3) Antitrust 32 (2020)
- The Paramount Decrees: Lessons for the Future, 19(5) Antitrust Source 1 (April 2020)
- D&O Liability for Antitrust Violations, 59 Santa Clara Law Review 527 (2020)
- Interstate Circuit and Conspiracy Theories, 2019 University of Illinois Law Review 1447 (2019), a winner of the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards
- Con Men and Their Enablers: The Anatomy of Confidence Games, 85 Social Research 795 (2018) (with Lindsey Huang)
- Complete List of Publications
Education
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S.J.D. Harvard Law School2002
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LL.M. Harvard Law School1999
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LL.B. Tel Aviv University1997
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B.A. Tel Aviv University1997