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Sarel R. & Barysė D. (forthcoming, 2026), "Public Perceptions of Judicial Use of AI: A Legal & Psychological Perspective", in Cambridge Handbook on AI and Technologies in Courts (Agne Limante and Monika Zalnieriute eds.)
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Köksal B. & Sarel, R. (forthcoming, 2025). "The Smart Contracts Trilemma",University of Illinois Law Review 2025, Working Paper Link (SSRN).
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Jabotinsky H.Y. & Sarel R. (forthcoming, 2025). "Let it Flow: Information Exchange in Video Conferences versus Face-to-Face Meetings", Connecticut Law Review 57, Working Paper Link (SSRN).
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Gilboa M., Kaplan Y., & Sarel, R. (2024), "Climate Change as Unjust Enrichment", The Georgetown Law Journal 112:1039-1094, Published Version Link,
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Jabotinsky H.Y. & Sarel, R. (2024), "Co-authoring with an AI? Ethical Dilemmas and Artificial Intelligence", Arizona State Law Journal 56:187-223, Published Version Link.
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Sarel, R. (2023), "Restraining ChatGPT", 75 UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings Law Journal) 75: 115-174, Published Version Link.
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Jabotinsky H.Y. & Sarel R. (2023), "How Crisis Affects Crypto: Coronavirus as a Test Case", Hastings Law Journal 74:433-488, Published Version Link.
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Becher S.I., Feess E., & Sarel, R. (2023), "Regulating Product Return Policies: The Trade-off between Efficiency and Distribution", Journal of Legal Studies 52(1): 137-191, Published Version Link.
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Sarel, R., Jabotinsky H.Y., & Klein, I. (2023), "Globalize Me: Regulating Distributed Ledger Technology", Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 56(2): 437-485, Published Version Link
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Barysė D. & Sarel R. (2023), "Algorithms in the Court: Does it Matter Which Part of the Judicial Decision-Making is Automated?", Artificial Intelligence and Law, Published Version Link
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Feess, E. & Sarel, R. (2022), "Optimal Fine Reductions for Self-Reporting: The Impact of Loss Aversion", International Review of Law & Economics 70, Article 106067, Published Version Link.
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Elm J.P. & Sarel R. (2022), "No Policy is an Island: Mitigating Covid-19 in view of Interaction Effects", American Journal of Law & Medicine 48(1): 7-37. Published Version Link.
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Sarel R. (2022), "Crime and Punishment in Times of Pandemics", European Journal of Law & Economics, 54: 155-186, Published Version Link.
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Sarel R. & Demirtas, M. (2021), "Delegation in a Multi-Tier Court System: Are Remands in the U.S. Federal Courts Driven by Moral Hazard?", European Journal of Political Economy 68, Article 101999, Published Version Link.
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Sarel, R. (2021), "Property Rights in Cryptocurrencies: A Law and Economics Perspective", North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 22(3): 389-446. Published Version Link.
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Feess, E. & Sarel, R. (2018), "Judicial Effort and The Appeals System: Theory and Experiment", Journal of Legal Studies 47(2): 269-294. Published Version Link.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and book chapters
Edited collections
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Das Private im Privatrecht (Jahrbuch Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaft) (2022) (with Johanna Croon-Gestefeld, Stefan Korch, Linda Kuschel, and Philipp Scholz)
POSTS IN LEADING LEGAL BLOGS
[1] Zooming in on Virtual Legal Encounters (with H. Jabotinsky), Duke Finreg Blog.
[2] The Promise and Perils of Using AI at Law Reviews (with H. Jabotinsky), CLS Blue Sky Blog.
[3] Should Smart Contracts Be Mandated? (with B. Köksal), CLS Blue Sky Blog
[4] Climate Change as Unjust Enrichment (with Y. Kaplan & M. Gilboa), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
[5] What Should we do about ChatGPT? Oxford Business Law Blog and CLS Blue Sky Blog
[6] How to Move from Local to Global Regulation of Crypto-Assets (with H. Jabotinsky & I. Klein), Oxford Business Law Blog and CLS Blue Sky Blog
[7] When Biden Met Crypto: Thoughts on the President's Executive Order (with H. Jabotinsky), Oxford Business Law Blog and CLS Blue Sky Blog
[8] Business Shutdowns in Light of Substitution Effects: Why Some Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies Fail (with JP ELM), Oxford Business Law Blog and CLS Blue Sky Blog.
[9] Exchanging Information in a Time of Social Distancing: Are Video Conferences a Perfect Substitute for Face-to-face Meetings? (With H. Jabotinsky), Oxford Business Law Blog
[10] How is the Market for Cryptocurrencies Affected by the Coronavirus and Why Should we Care? (with H. Jabotinsky), Oxford Business Law Blog and CLS Blue Sky Blog.
[11] Property Rights in Cryptocurrencies: Insights from Law & Economics, Oxford Business Law Blog
WORKING PAPERS
[1] Do Moral Transgressions Lead to Pro-social Effort? A Real-effort Experiment? (with Eberhard Feess)
[2] Do Wrongfully Convicted Defendants Receive Higher Punishments?
[3] Framing Effects in Proportionality Analysis: Experimental Evidence (with Anne van Aaken)
[4] Judicial Errors, Crime Deterrence and Appeals: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts
[5] Measuring Constitutional Loyalty: Evidence From the Covid-19 Pandemic (with Jerg Gutmann & Stefan Voigt)
PRESENTATIONS
Nov. 2024: Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
MPI Law Seminar
Jul. 2024: German Law & Economics Association
Apr. 2024: Seminar at Haifa University
Mar. 2024: Seminar at Singapore Management University
Jan. 2024: Israeli Regulation Seminar,
Joint meeting of the European Law & Economics Associations
Nov. 2023: Symposium on Culture of trust and institutions (IFN Stockholm)
Haifa Economics Faculty Seminar (Haifa University)
Leibniz Business School Seminar (Hannover)
Oct. 2023: French Law & Economics Association (Nice)
Sep. 2023: European Society of Empirical Legal Studies (Warsaw)
Jul. 2023: German Law & Economics Association (Budapest)
FUELS seminar (FU Berlin)
Jun. 2023: American Law & Economics Association (Boston, MA)
Apr. 2023: ECONtribute Seminar, Bonn
Mar. 2023: European Public Choice Society
Feb. 2023: EMLE MTM (Hamburg)
Nov. 2022: Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Charlottesville, VA)
MACIE-seminar (Marburg)
Oct. 2022: French Law & Economics Association (Montpellier)
Sep. 2022: European Law & Economics Association (Lisbon)
Jul. 2022: ICON-S (via Zoom)
German Law & Economics Association (via Zoom)
Jun. 2022: National Business Law Scholars Conference (Oklahoma City)
May 2022: LUMSA University (Rome)
Bucerius Law School Workshop on New Frontiers in Law & Economics (Hamburg)
Feb. 2022: EMLE MTM (via Zoom)
Jul. 2021: German Law & Economics Association (via Zoom)
ICON-S (via Zoom)
Jun. 2021: STOREP - Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (via Zoom)
May 2021: IML&E Workshop (via Zoom)
Dec. 2020: Italian Society of Law & Economics ("SIDE-ISLE") (via Zoom)
International Junior Scholars Forum in Law and Social Science (via Zoom)
Oct. 2020: University of Chicago Legal Scholarship Workshop (via Zoom)
International Risk Management Conference (via Zoom)
French Association of Law & Economics (via Zoom)
Sep. 2020 European Law & Economics Association (via Zoom)
Jun. 2020 National Business Law Scholars Conference (via Zoom)
Sep. 2019 European Law & Economics Association (annual meeting, Tel Aviv)
Jul. 2019 German Law & Economics Association (annual meeting, Hannover)
May. 2019 American Law & Economics Association (annual meeting, New York)
Apr. 2019 European Public Choice Society (annual meeting, Jerusalem)
Feb. 2019 EMLE Midterm Meeting (Hamburg)
Dec. 2018 Fourth Empirical Legal Studies Workshop, University of Amsterdam, School of Law
Nov. 2018 Law Faculty Seminars (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Tel Aviv University)
Oct. 2018 Paris-Nanterre, LIEN: Law, Economics and Institutions Seminar
Sep. 2018 European Association of Law & Economics (annual meeting, Milan)
Jun. 2018 Second Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (Leuven)
May. 2018 Seminar, The Jerusalem Business School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jan. 2018 American Economic Association (annual meeting, Philadelphia)
Sep. 2017 European Association of Law & Economics (annual meeting, London)
Jul. 2017 German Law & Economics Association (annual meeting, Marburg)
Jun. 2017 4th International Workshop on Economic Analysis of Litigation (Paris-Nanterre)
Jan. 2017 American Economic Association, annual meeting (Chicago).
Sep. 2016 European Association of Law & Economics (annual meeting, Bologna).
Jul. 2016 German Law & Economics Association (annual meeting, Budapest).
Jun. 2016 First Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe (Amsterdam).
Apr. 2016 European Public Choice Society (annual meeting, Freiburg)
Mar. 2016 Public Choice Society (annual meeting, Fort-Lauderdale)
Feb. 2016 Max Planck Institute for research on collective goods (seminar, Bonn)
Dec. 2015 SIDE-ISLE (annual meeting, Naples)
Oct. 2015 Second Law & Economic Policy international workshop (Paris-Nanterre University)
Sep. 2015 European Association of Law & Economics (annual meeting, Vienna)