Maytal Gilboa

Maytal Gilboa (born 1978) is an Israeli legal scholar and researcher, specializing in tort law, unjust enrichment, remedies, and theories of private law. She has been serving as an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario in Canada since 2025, and was previously a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University (2020–2024).

Biography Gilboa was born in Ramat Gan in 1978.

She completed her LL.B. in law and B.A. in management at Tel Aviv University in 2004. In 2013, she completed her LL.M. there as part of a direct-track PhD program, which she completed in 2016 under the supervision of Ariel Porat. Her doctoral dissertation focused on legal causation and unjust enrichment.

She has been awarded grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, and a Presidential Scholarship from Tel Aviv University.

Personal life Gilboa is married to Yigal Blum, a software engineer, and they have two children.

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