Tal Kastner

Tal Kastner’s teaching and research interests include contracts, property, law and literature, and the operation of legal language in social and historical context. She is working on an Open Source Contract Casebook (with Mattew Bodie, Pam Bookman, Ethan Leib, Jake Linford and Guy Rub) and a scholarly book project on boilerplate in American law and literature and the role of standard contract language in shaping the idea and experience of freedom in the United States. She has published articles in student edited law reviews—including the Georgetown Law Journal, BYU Law Review, and U.C. Davis Law Review, among others—and in peer-reviewed journals, including Law & Social Inquiry, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, and Law and Literature, among others, as well as book chapters, including publications by Oxford University Press and Routledge, and opinion pieces in the press.

Professor Kastner joined Rutgers from Touro Law Center, where she was an Assistant Professor of Law. Prior to this, Professor Kastner was the Jacobson Fellow in Law and Business and an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law. She has taught as a Lecturer at Princeton University, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York (CUNY). She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow of Law and Interdisciplinary Studies at Cardozo Law School.

Following law school, Professor Kastner practiced as a transactional associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and served as a law clerk for President Aharon Barak and Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel. She also earned a PhD from Princeton (English) with a dissertation project on the operation of boilerplate in law and literature.