Adi Leibovitch

Visiting Professor of Law
Home Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Teaching Term: Fall 2025

Office: 3153 Eck Hall of Law

Adi Leibovitch is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, and ETH Zurich, and as a visiting researcher at NYU, UCLA, and the University of Michigan.

Before starting to teach, Leibovitch was an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. She earned her LLM and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a John M. Olin Scholar at the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, and a Russell Baker Scholar. She also holds an LLB and MBA, both magna cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA summa cum laude in public policy, mediation and conflict resolution from Tel-Aviv University.

Leibovitch’s research integrates economic analysis, behavioral theory, and empirical methods to examine institutional design in courts, litigation, and legal decision-making, with a particular focus on the criminal justice system. Her scholarship has been published in leading journals and has received recognition through awards and grants, including from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Israel Science Foundation. She is the recipient of the 2021 Ellis and Alma Birk Prize in Law.

Leibovitch teaches courses in Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, Law and Economics, and Empirical Legal Studies. She has received university-wide recognition for teaching excellence, being named one of Hebrew University’s best professors in 2020 and 2022.