Aviv Deutch is a J.S.D. candidate from Israel at Yale Law School, where he also obtained 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. During his studies, he received the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence each year and was awarded the Hebrew University Scholarship for Advanced Law Studies Overseas (Lamas Scholarship Fund). Aviv also served as a judicial clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel in the chambers of Justice Professor Ofer Grosskopf. His scholarship has been published in Israeli law reviews and presented at various academic conferences.
Aviv’s research interests include private law theory, property law, and law and economics. His dissertation project develops an integrated theoretical and economic framework for analyzing “legal accidents” - situations in which innocent parties compete over the same legal entitlement following the intervention of a wrongdoer. Through case studies drawn from property law, copyright law, and family law, the project examines how legal doctrines allocate rights and losses, structure markets, and mediate tensions between competing normative principles across different branches of private law.
Doctoral Committee
Professor Yair Listokin (Chair)
Professor Ian Ayres
Professor Henry E. Smith
Professor Daniel Markovits
Degrees
J.S.D., Yale Law School (in progress)
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2026
LL.B., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2024
B.A. (Amirim Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2024
Contact Information
aviv.deutch@yale.edu