Lior Strahilevitz

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz is an American legal scholar who is currently the Sidley Austin Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He writes primarily in the areas of property law and privacy law. He also regularly teaches the University of Chicago's renowned first-year Elements of the Law course.

Education and career

Strahilevitz graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. summa cum laude in 1996, majoring in political science. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1999, he graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as executive editor on the Yale Law Journal and worked as a research assistant to professor and former U.S. Solicitor General Drew S. Days III. Strahilevitz has been as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and Yale Law School. His teaching and research focuses on private law including property law and contract, land use, privacy law, and law and technology. Strahilevitz's research on dark patterns and privacy law have helped shape regulatory approaches in California and at the federal level, as well as in the United Kingdom. He was the recipient of the law school's Graduating Students' Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and 2016. Strahilevitz has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2015. Strahilevitz is one of the most-cited active scholars of property law in the United States.