Dr. Orit Gan

Areas of interest

• Contract Law and Theories
• Feminist Legal Theories
• Law and Society
• Law and Film

Teaching

• Advanced Contracts
• Feminist Analysis of the Law
• Advanced Contracts

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)

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