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
Professor, College of Law
Interim Head, Philosophy
Professor, Philosophy
Recent Publications
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
Kar, R. B. (2017). Trump as the First Deal-Maker-In-Chief: Promise and Perils of the Model. University of Illinois Law Review Online, 2017. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2965866