Research Interests
Commercial Law; Contracts; Economics and Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property; International and Comparative Law; Jurisprudence; Legal History; Psychology and Law
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
J.D. Yale Law School
B.A. Harvard University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Dean for Curricular Innovation, College of Law
Professor, College of Law
Professor, Philosophy
Recent Publications
Huang, Z., Kar, R. B., Sundaram, H., & August, T. (2026). Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements. In N. Oliver, D. A. Shamma, H. Candello, P. Cesar, P. Lopes, A. Bozzon, T. Kosch, V. Liao, X. Ma, V. Artizzu, F. Draxler, G. Lopez, A. V. Reinschluessel, X. Tong, & P. O. Toups Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 961 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings ). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791386
Kar, R. B., & Radin, M. J. (2019). Pseudo-contract and shared meaning analysis. Harvard Law Review, 132(4), 1137-1219.
Kar, R. B. (2018). Transformational Marriage: The Religious Case For Supporting Same-Sex Marriage. In R. F. Wilson (Ed.), The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (pp. 375-412). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108277976.017
Kar, R. B., & Lindo, J. (2017). Race and the Law in the Genomic Age: A Problem for Equal Treatment Under the Law. In R. Brownsword, E. Scotford, & K. Yeung (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.55
Kar, R. B. (2017). The Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Foundations of Law. Law and Social Inquiry, 42(1), 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/lsi.12277