Orit Gan is a Senior Lecturer at Sapir College. Her principal areas of publishing and teaching include Contract Law and Feminist Legal Theories.
She was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School in New York (2010-2012), at Sydney Law School in Australia (2018), and at UCL Faculty of Laws in London (2026). She was also a Visiting Professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (2022) and Bocconi University School of Law in Milan (2025).
Dr. Gan has earned a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University and LL.M. and LL.B. from Tel Aviv University. She holds a second LL.M. from Duke Law School.
Dr. Gan's areas of interest are Contract Law, Contract Theories, Feminist Legal Theories, Law and Society, Law and Film.
Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence, Bar-Ilan University, 2006-2009
Naamat Gender Studies Doctoral Fellowship, 2007
Yoseph Samuel Scholarship, 1998
§ Freedom of Contract – Still a Feminist Challenge, in Cambridge Handbook on the Global Status of Women’s Rights (forthcoming 2026)
§ On Women's Autonomy: From Muller to Dobbs, 29 J. Gender, Race & Justice (forthcoming 2026)
§ Duress Law and Power, in Contract and Power: Ideologies, Inequalities, and Marginalisation in European Contract Law 41 (Lucinda Miller, Pietro Sirena eds., 2026)
§ Duress Law: Transformation or Preservation, in Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Sinai Deutch 75 (Moshe Gelbard
& Ruth Plato-Shinar, eds., 2024)(with Shahar Lifshitz)(Heb.)
§ Contract Law,
Equality and the State,
72 Clev. St. L. Rev. 889 (2024)
§ The Arbitration
Debate: A Tale of Two Contract Cities, 39 Ohio St.
J. on Disp. Resol. 507 (2024)
§ Nonmarital Contract Law, 76 Rutgers Uni. L. Rev. 663 (2024)
§ Spousal Agreements and Patriarchal Bargains, 34 Bar Ilan Law
Studies (2023)(Heb.)
§ Spousal Agreements and Patriarchal Bargains: A Wife’s
Guarantee of Her Husband’s Business Debts, 18 Eur. Rev. Contract
L. 175 (2022)
§ I Dissent: Justice Ginsburg's Profound Dissents, 74 Rutgers Uni. L.
Rev.
1037 (2022)
§ A Feminist Economic Perspective on Contract Law: Promissory Estoppel as an Example, 28 Mich. J. Gender & L. 1 (2021)
§ Trading the Gett: Between Contractual Right and
Inalienability, 32 Bar Ilan Law Studies 787 (2020)(Heb.)
§ Anti-Stereotyping Theory and Contract Law, 42 Harv. J. L. &
Gender 83 (2019)
§ The Many Faces of Contractual Consent, 65 Drake L. Rev. 615 (2017)
§ The Justice Element of Promissory Estoppel, 89 St. John's L. Rev. 55 (2015)
§ Contractual Duress
and Relations of Power, 36 Harv. J. L. & Gender 171 (2013)
§ Promissory Estoppel: A Call for a More Inclusive Contract
Law, 16 J. Gender, Race
& Justice 47 (2013)
§ Third Party Consent to Search: Analyzing Triangular
Relations, 19 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 303 (2012)
Consent to Contract and Epistemic Injustice: Third Annual Contract Theory Works in Progress Workshop, Berkeley Law, commentator (3/2026)
Gender Power Imbalance in Supreme Court Cases: Annual Conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association, Peres Academic Center (1/2026)
On Women’s Autonomy: From Muller to Dobbs: 15th Annual Conference of the Israeli Private Law Association, The Academic Center for Law and Science (11/2025)
Duress Law and Power: Society of European Contract Law: Contract and Power, UCL Faculty of Laws, London, UK (6/2024)
On Women’s Autonomy: From Muller to Dobbs: 17th Annual International Conference on Contracts, University of Bristol Law School, Bristol, UK (6/2024)
Nonmarital Contract Law: Fifth Roundtable on Nonmarriage and the Law, Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey (9/2023)
Contract Law, Equality and the State: Obligations X: Private Law and the State, Banff, Alberta, Canada (7/2023)
The Arbitration Debate: A Tale of Two Contract Cities: 13th Annual Conference of the Israeli Private Law Association, Bar-Ilan University (5/2023)
The Arbitration Debate: A Tale of Two Contract Cities: 16th Annual International Conference on Contracts, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas (3/2023)
Suing a Dating Agency for Misrepresentation: When Love is Translated into Damages: Law Love & Money Workshop, University of Technology, Sydney (11/2022)
Spousal Agreements and Patriarchal Bargains: A Wife’s Guarantee of Her Husband’s Business Debts: Society of European Contract Law: Family and Person in Contracting in Europe (6/2021)
Fifth Israeli Contract Law Forum, Zefat Academic College (conference organizing committee) (6/2021)
Feminist Economic Perspectives on Contract Law: Promissory Estoppel as an Example: 15th Annual International Conference on Contracts, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California (2/2020)
Deniz Kandiyoti: Bargaining with Patriarchy, Bargaining with husbands: Annual Conference of Gender Studies Programs in Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2/2018)
Anti-Stereotyping Theory and Contract Law: ClassCrits X, Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans (11/2017)
Divorce in Israel 2017: Between Changes and Tradition, Sapir Academic College (6/2017) (Conference Organizer with Yad Laisha)
The Annual Conference of the Israeli Private Law Association (6/2017)(commentator)
Trading The Get: The Problem That Has No Name And Why Contract Law Is Not The Solution: Annual Law and Society Conference, Netanya Academic College (2/2017) and Annual Conference of Gender Studies Programs in Israel, Tel-Aviv University (3/2017)
Gett Abuse: 12th International Conference on Contracts, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles (2/2017)
The Many Faces of Contractual Consent: 11th International Conference on Contracts, St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas (2/2016)
The Justice Element of Promissory Estoppel: 10th International Conference on Contracts, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV (2/2015)