Tal Kastner

Tal Kastner’s teaching and research interests include contracts, business organizations, property, law and literature, and the operation of legal language in social and historical context. 

She has published articles in student edited law reviews—including the Georgetown Law Journal, BYU Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and U.C. Davis Law Review, among others—and in peer-reviewed journals, such as Law & Social Inquiry, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and Law and Literature, as well as book chapters, including publications by Oxford University Press and Routledge, and opinion pieces in the press. In addition, she has contributed to an Open Source Contracts Casebook (with Matthew Bodie, Pam Bookman, Ethan Leib, Jake Linford, and Guy Rub).

She earned her JD at Yale Law School and a PhD from Princeton (English) with a dissertation project on the operation of boilerplate in law and literature.

Following law school, Professor Kastner practiced as a transactional associate at Cleary Gottlieb and served as a law clerk for President Aharon Barak and Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel. She has also taught at Touro Law Center and at NYU Law School, where she was the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business and an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering.