Lior Strahilevitz
Sidley Austin Professor of Law
Lior Strahilevitz is the Sidley Austin Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught since 2002. He graduated from Yale Law School and UC Berkeley and clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the Ninth Circuit. He served as the Law School's Deputy Dean from 2010 to 2012. A two-time winner of the graduating class's award for teaching excellence, he is recognized as one of the finest property law teachers in the country. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2015.
Teaching Style
Professor Strahilevitz is an award-winning teacher known for his accessible and engaging classroom style. He uses the Socratic method consistently but in a way that builds student confidence rather than intimidating them. He cold-calls students and uses creative hypotheticals that connect property and privacy doctrines to contemporary technology issues. Two-time winner of the graduating class's teaching excellence award, he is widely regarded as one of the best classroom teachers at Chicago.
Cold Call Tips
- 1Understand the core property doctrines thoroughly — adverse possession, servitudes, takings — as Strahilevitz builds from fundamentals
- 2Be ready to apply property and privacy concepts to new technology contexts like social media, smart devices, and data markets
- 3Think about how social norms interact with formal legal rules — he is interested in the gap between law on the books and law in action
- 4His hypotheticals can be creative and unexpected, so practice flexible application of doctrines to novel facts
Areas of Expertise
Education
- J.D., Yale Law School
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley (Political Science, highest honors)
Notable Publications
- Information and Exclusion (Yale University Press, 2011)
- Privacy Versus Antidiscrimination (University of Chicago Law Review)
Research Interests
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