Prof. Moran Ofir is a Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa. She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a program of the Center for the Study of Rationality, in addition to MBA in Finance and a Bachelor of Law (LLB). She has been a visiting scholar at the law faculties of NYU, Columbia, Oxford, LSE, and more. Prof. Ofir specializes in corporate and securities law, empirical analysis of law, fintech, behavioral finance and financial decision-making. Her research has been published in leading academic journals in both the field of law and finance and has won competitive research funds. The findings of her research have also appeared on academic and business blogs, have been discussed in podcasts and extensively covered in the media.

In addition to her academic and research activities, Prof. Ofir served as a member of the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) Advisory Committee on Capital Markets and Technology and as a panel member specializing in the capital market in the ISA’s Administrative Enforcement Committee. She serves as an independent director and is a member of the Audit, Remuneration, Strategy and Capital Planning Committees. She is also a co-founder of the “Chaverot” Forum, which serves as a platform for women academics in the fields of commercial-business law, with the aim of promoting gender equality through mutual support.

Prof. Omer Kimhi serves a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Haifa University Faculty of Law. He holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, in economics from Tel-Aviv university, an MBA (specializing in accounting & finance), magna cum laude, also from Tel-Aviv university and a JSD (Juridical Science Doctorate) from New York University. His research areas include bankruptcy laws, local government laws, corporate laws and economic analysis of the law, and he has published articles in these fields in leading law journals. He serves as the local coordinator in Economic Master in Law & Economics (EMLE) for Haifa, and is also the head of the LLM program in business law.

Prof. Oren Gazal Ayal was, until recently, the Dean of the Faculty of Law and the director of the Center for the Study of Crime, Law and Society, and is currently the Vice President and Dean for Research and Development. He is an expert in criminal law and procedure, sentencing law, and law and economics at the University of Haifa. He is regularly published in leading journals, including Duke Law Journal, The Journal of Law & Economics, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Law & Social Inquiry, and all leading Israeli legal journals. His papers are frequently cited in decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court.

Prof. Eli M. Salzberger took his doctorate at Oxford. He has been the President of the Israeli Association of Law and Economics, the President of the European Association for Law and Economics and the Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Haifa. His field of expertise include economic analysis of public law and public choice, constitutional law, IP and Cyberspace. He has many publications in leading law and economics journals including the Journal of Law and Economics and the International Review of Law and Economics. He also published two books (co-authored with Niva Elkin-Koren) on Law, Economic and Cyberspace (2004) and Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Law (2012). Currently, he is the Director of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions.

Dr. Hila Nevo is an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Israel. Dr. Nevo specializes in law and economics research; her areas of expertise are focused on competition law and regulation, behavioural law and economics, and microeconomics. Dr. Nevo lectures on a wide-range of topics, including the economic analysis of law, foundations of economics, international commercial business, antitrust law and corporate law .

Prof. Alessandro Pomelli is associate professor of commercial law at the University of Bologna. He holds a JD from University of Bologna Law School, an LLM from Columbia University Law School, a JSD from Bocconi University Law School in Milan. He is admitted to the Bar in Italy and in the State of New York. Professor Pomelli is a member of the teaching staff of the European Doctorate of Law and Economics, a doctoral program jointly held by the Universities of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bologna, and serves on the board of the Doctorate in European Law at the University of Bologna.  Professor Pomelli has been involved in policy work with the European Commission and was appointed as a legal advisor to the European Parliament in corporate law for the years 2016-2020. His research interests include corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation, bankruptcy law and the economic analysis of law. He has published widely in the fields of corporate governance, corporate finance law, takeover regulation, financial regulation.

Prof. Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde (Sacha Girondi) is a former student of Ecole normale supérieure in Paris (1990-1994). After graduate studies in philosophy of law and philosophy of language and a dissertation in the latter discipline (1998), he became an assistant professor at Ecole normale supérieure (2000) and then a full professor at Université Aix-Marseille (2010). In 2012 he was appointed as a professor of behavioral economics and law and economics at University Paris-2 Panthéon-Assas which is the main Law and Law and Economics Faculty in France. Prof. Bourgeois-Gironde has coordinated numerous national and international research projects, including the current European project BiOcean5D, in which he is involved in envisioning new economic and legal instruments for the preservation of marine biodiversity. His current interests concern an assessment of possible transformations of the legal frameworks that shape our relationship with nature, particularly focusing on the possibility of subjective rights attributed to entities such as rivers, diverse ecosystems, the ocean, snow, and climatic processes. Transformations of extant environmental legal paradigms connect with fundamental legal-theoretical questions such as legal personhood, the scope of property and sovereignty, or how the natural world tends to be framed in and by law.