Yuval Feldman is a Full Professor and holds the Mori Lazarof Chair for Legal Research at the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, where he heads the ERC-funded Voluntary Compliance Lab and serves as Vice Dean for Research. Additionally, he serves as a Professor of Psychology (By courtesy) in the Psychology Department at Bar-Ilan University.
His research areas include behavioral analysis of law, experimental law and economics, behavioral ethics, computational law, regulation, enforcement, and compliance. From 2011 to 2013, he was a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Institutional Corruption Lab at Harvard Law School and at the Social Cognition Lab (Mahzarin Banaji) in Harvard Psychology. Feldman currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Tachlit Policy Institute. From 2014-2023, he served as a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he published a series of position papers on behavioral aspects of discrimination, nationality laws, environment, corruption, regulation, solidarity, and trust. He has advised various governmental bodies on behavior-based policy and experiments in areas related to ethical decision-making, trust-enhancing regulatory design, public cooperation, and enforcement in areas related to public health (COVID-19), environment, and taxation. From 2016-20, he served as a member of the Young Israeli Academy.
Feldman has received numerous national fellowships, including Rothschild, Fulbright, Alon, and awards such as Zeltner (2008, young researcher), Cheshin (2019, senior researcher), Bruno Prize (2020), and Patal Prize (2021), the Rector’s Scientific Innovation Award (2023), as well as more than 25 competitive research grants from foundations such as Olin, GIF, Marie Curie, ISF (X4), and IIAS. During 2022-2027, he held the ERC Advanced Grant for his research on: Creating Voluntary Compliance Across Doctrines and States: Integrating Behavioral and Regulatory Aspects of Governments’ Ability to Trust Public Cooperation, Ethics and Compliance.
He has co-authored more than 80 articles, many of which have been published in leading journals in law, public policy, management, and psychology, including NYU, Texas, Georgetown and Northwestern Law Reviews, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Regulation & Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Psychological Science, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Behavioral Public Policy, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology–Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Additionally, he is a board member of Regulation & Governance, Law & Policy, European Journal of Law & Economics, and is one of the founders of ComplianceNet, an interdisciplinary and international network of researchers in the field of regulatory compliance.
His first book, “The Law of Good People”, was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2018. His second book, “Can the Public be Trusted”, is expected to be published in 2025, also by Cambridge University Press.
