Maytal Gilboa
Maytal Gilboa joined the Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2025. Her research focuses on tort law, unjust enrichment, remedies, and private law theory. Her recent research projects explore questions relating to the intersection between private law and societal problems, such as tort law and socio-economic status, tort damages and racial and gender bias, and unjust enrichment and climate change.
Prior to her appointment at Western University, she was a faculty member at Bar Ilan University (2020–2024). She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2018–2019) and at the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality (2016–2017). Maytal holds a BA in Management, LL.B (magna cum laude), LL.M and PhD from Tel Aviv University.
She has received various research grants, such as the Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF), the Germen-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development Grant (GIF), and the Tel Aviv University President’s Grant. Her work has been published in legal journals such as Legal Theory, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, and Georgetown Law Journal.
Academic Degrees:
B.A. (Tel Aviv University), LL.B. (Tel Aviv University), LL.M. (Tel Aviv University), Ph.D. (Tel Aviv University)
| Email: | mgilboa@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | LB 31 |
| Office: | 519-661-2111 x81363 |
Research Interests / Specializations: Tort law, Unjust Enrichment, Remedies, Private Law Theories, Causation in the Law
Research Highlights
Climate Change as Unjust Enrichment, 112 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 1039 (2024) (with Yotam Kaplan & Roee Sarel)
Biased but Reasonable: Bias Under the Cover of Standard of Care, 57 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 489 (2023)
The Future of Property, 44 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 1443 (2023) (with Yael Lifshitz & Yotam Kaplan)
Linking Gains to Wrongs, 35 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE 365 (2022)
The Costs of Mistakes, 122 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW FORUM 61 (2022) (with Yotam Kaplan)
The Color of Pain: Racial Bias in Pain and Suffering Damages, 56 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 651 (2022)
Loser Takes All: Multiple Claimants & Probabilistic Restitution, 10 UC IRVINE LAW REVIEW 907 (2020) (with Yotam Kaplan)
Multiple Reasonable Behavior Cases: The Problem of Causal Underdetermination in Tort Law, 25 LEGAL THEORY 77 (2019)
The Costs of Having (too) Many Choices: Reshaping the Doctrine of Informed Consent, 84 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 367 (2019) (with Omer Pelled)
The Mistake about Mistakes: Rethinking Partial and Full Restitution, 26 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 427 (2018) (with Yotam Kaplan)
