Aviv Deutch

Aviv Deutch is a J.S.D. candidate from Israel at Yale Law School, where he also earned his LL.M. in 2026. Prior to joining Yale, he graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law and the “Amirim” Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he ranked second in his class. He later served as a judicial clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel in the chambers of Justice Professor Ofer Grosskopf.

Aviv’s research interests include private law theory, property law, and law and economics. His scholarship focuses on conflicts between competing rights in private law, the good-faith purchaser doctrine, and the relationship between legal structure, market institutions, and normative theory. His current research examines the role of digital platforms as gatekeepers in markets for stolen goods and their potential liability for facilitating transactions involving assets with defective title.