Lior Strahilevitz

Strahilevitz graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. summa cum laude in 1996, majoring in political science. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[2] In 2008, he graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as executive editor on the Yale Law Journal and worked as a research assistant to professor and former U.S. Solicitor General Drew S. Days III.[1]

After graduating from law school, Strahilevitz clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[1] Between 2000 and 2002, he worked as an associate at Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle, Washington.[2]

In 2002, Strahilevitz joined the University of Chicago Law School faculty as an assistant professor of law. He became a professor of law in 2007 and the Sidley Austin Professor of Law in 2011. He served as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and Yale Law School. His teaching and research focuses on private law including property law and contract, land use, privacy law, and law and technology.[2] He was the recipient of the law school's Graduating Students' Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and 2016.[1] He has been a member of various committees, including the University of Chicago Committee on the Quality of Academic Life and the law school's Faculty Appointments Committee.[3] He is the co-editor of the casebook Property (2017).[4]