Barak Orbach

Professor of Law and Director of the Business Law Program
The University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law

Areas of Expertise

Barak Orbach is a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is one of the nation’s most well-known authorities on antitrust law. Professor Orbach teaches and writes about antitrust, corporate governance, intellectual property, and regulation. He published over 40 articles, essays, and book chapters in these areas. Additionally, Professor Orbach is the author a leading casebook on regulation, Regulation: Why and How the State Regulates(Foundation Press, 2012). Professor Orbach published several seminal works about antitrust and censorship in the motion picture industry. His study of the motion-picture industry is credited with contributing to a change in the pricing of movies in the United States. Discussions of Professor Orbach’s work appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, Mother Jones, Maclean’s, NPR, Quartz, Slate, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and many other media outlets.

Professor Orbach holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics from Tel Aviv University and masters and doctorate degrees in law from Harvard Law School. Before joining academia, Professor Orbach served as an Advisor for Law & Economics to Israel Antitrust Authority and worked as an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York.