Barak Orbach

BARAK ORBACH

Barak Orbach is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Business Law Program at the University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona.  Professor Orbach is a leading expert in antitrust and regulation. He writes and teaches in a wide range of topics in antitrust, regulation, and business law. Professor holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics from Tel Aviv University and masters and doctorate degrees in law from Harvard Law School. Before joining the academia, he served as an Advisor for Law & Economics to the Israeli Antitrust Commissioner and as an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York. Professor Orbach`s casebook Regulation: Why and How the State Regulates (Foundation Press, 2012) is the first casebook to offer a comprehensive framework for the lawyers and policymakers of the concepts and principles of regulation. 

Professor Orbach has written extensively on core topics in antitrust law, such the goals of antitrust law, business size in antitrust law, and the legality of various pricing practices. In regulation, he has written on states` rights, civility norms, firearms, environmental policies, and other themes. Professor Orbach is one of the leading scholars of the motion picture industry, studying antitrust, censorship, and intellectual property issues in the history of the industry. He explored the traditional uniform prices of movie theaters that has been gradually changing since the publication of his works. Professor Orbach also uncovered two censorship waves that influenced the evolution of the industry: the origins of movie censorship in the United States and a 1910 censorship wave that intended to suppress the black supremacy of Jack Johnson.

For more information see Professor Orbach`s complete list of publication and Curriculum Vitae.