Michal S. Gal

Michal Gal (LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D.) is Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, and was, until recently, the President of the International Academic Society for Competition Law Scholars (ASCOLA), comprising of more than 600 competition researchers worldwide. She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, and Bocconi. Prof. Gal is the author of several books, including Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003). She also published numerous scholarly articles in leading journals, including on the intersection of competition law and intellectual property, on law and technology, on the effects of the size of the market on regulation, and on algorithms and big data. She has won numerous prizes for her research and for her teaching. Inter alia, her paper, won the Jerry S. Cohen Medal, given by the American Antitrust Institute, for best antitrust paper published in 2017. In 2019 she won the highest award given by her university, for Best Senior Researcher. In October 2022 she was chosen by Global Competition Review as one of 25 most influential competition academics (law or economics) in the world. In April 2024 she received a Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is a proud graduate of the University of Toronto.