Prof. Shelly Kreiczer-Levy
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy is Professor of Law at the College of Law and Business, Israel. She received her LL.B. (2004) and Ph.D. (2009) from Tel Aviv University and clerked for Aharon Barak, then President of the Supreme Court of Israel. She has taught at Cornell Law School and held visiting positions at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Emory Law School, King’s College London, and Padua University Law School. She has served as Chairperson of the Israeli Association of Private Law and as Vice Dean of the Law School at the College of Law and Business. She also was a recipient of the Zeltner Award for Young Promising Scholars.
Professor Kreiczer-Levy’s research spans property theory, inheritance, family, technology, and consumer markets. Across these fields, her work examines how legal institutions structure relationships among individuals and between individuals and market actors, and how these relationships are transformed by social, economic, and technological change.
A central strand of her scholarship develops a theory of inheritance based on continuity through property and on the relationship between givers and recipients. Her forthcoming book, Inheritance and Continuity (Cambridge University Press, 2027), offers a theoretical and comparative account of inheritance and develops a normative framework that rethinks the relationship between testamentary freedom, family protection, and intergenerational continuity.
Her research also explores transformations in property, consumption, and market relations in response to technological and economic change. Her book Destabilized Property: Property Law in the Sharing Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examined the shift from ownership to access and its implications for property theory. Her more recent work focuses on consumers and technology, the data economy, and corporate and platform power. This work includes the concept of the “data crowd” as a distinct legal stakeholder and an examination of property rights and consumer protection as alternative regulatory responses to corporate power in markets.
Her scholarship has appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Wisconsin Law Review, Washington Law Review, Yale Law & Policy Review, Maryland Law Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and Regulation & Governance, among other journals.
Books
Inheritance and Continuity
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2027
[Cambridge University Press book page]
Destabilized Property: Property Law in the Sharing Economy
Cambridge University Press, 2019
[Cambridge University Press book page]
Selected Publications
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market, 20 Regul. & Governance 1136 (2026).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, The Data Crowd as a Legal Stakeholder, 44 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 645 (2024).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, The Consumer Bundle, 99 Wash. L. Rev. 163 (2024).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy & Baoshi Wang, The Family of the City, the Family of the Country, 71 Am. J. Comp. L. 328 (2023).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Reclaiming Feudalism for the Technological Era, 41 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 183 (2023).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Big Data and the Modern Family, 2019 Wis. L. Rev. 349.
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Parents and Adult Children: The Elusive Boundaries of the Legal Family, 44 Law & Soc. Inquiry 519 (2019).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Share, Own, Access, 36 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 155 (2017).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Property’s Immortality, 23 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 107 (2016).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, The Informal Property Rights of Boomerang Children in the Home, 74 Md. L. Rev. 127 (2014).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Deliberative Accountability Rules in Inheritance Law: Promoting Accountable Estate Planning, 45 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 937 (2012).
Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, The Mandatory Nature of Inheritance, 53 Am. J. Juris. 105 (2008).
Academic Profiles
Property Law
Succession Law
Private Law Workshop