2025-2026 Law and Business Entrepreneurship Fellow
Tom Zur
Tom is the Jacobson Fellow at New York University School of Law. Tom is concurrently an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, and a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University School of Economics. Before Law school, Tom served as a law clerk for Justice Ofer Grosskopf of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Her research uses behavioral economics to study the US criminal justice system, integrating empirical (observational and experimental) and theoretical tools to explore questions about judicial decision-making and law enforcement.
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2022–Present
- Hebrew University School of Economics, Ph.D. Candidate, 2024–Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2022 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics, B.A. Magna cum Laude, 2023
- Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, LL.B. Magna cum Laude, 2020
Publications and Works in Progress
- When the Law of Small Numbers Meets the Law: A Theory of Judicial Quotas in Pre-Trial Detention Hearings (work in progress; draft available upon request)
- Decision Cascades (under review) (with Adi Leibovitch)
- Early Isn’t Always Better: Experimental Evidence on the Deterrent Effect of Delayed Enforcement (Revise & Resubmit, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization) (awarded the Harvard Law School Steven L. Werner Prize in Criminal Justice )
- How do People Learn from Not Being Caught? An Experimental Investigation of a “Non-Occurrence Bias” (under review) (awarded the Göran Skogh Award by the European Association of Law and Economics and the Harvard Law School John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics)
- LegalBench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models, 36 NeurIPS Proceedings (2024) (with Neel Guha et al.)
- A Theory of Remedies for Loss of Future Earnings in the Presence of Wage Disparities, 46 Tel Aviv U. L. Rev. 289 (Iyuney Mishpat) (2022) (with Omer Y. Peled) (Hebrew)