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Iman Masmoudi 

Iman Masmoudi is a Jacobson Fellow at ������ School of Law.  She researches property, labor law, and Islamic legal history.  Iman previously served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Srikanth Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2024, where she earned the Sears Prize (2022) and the Dean's Prize for the Best Paper in Islamic Law (2023).  She also holds an MPhil in Classical Islamic History from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard College. Iman is also the co-founder and president of Tuniq, an ethical clothing company based in Tunisia. 

Her research is comparative, and brings together private law and Islamic legal history.  She is currently working on two projects:  One is a historical study of employment contracts in Ottoman Tunisia and the rise of wage labor.  It explores how those early contracts were structured and negotiated.  The second research project lays out a framework for how courts should approach the question of severing impermissible interests in Congressional legislation.  It draws on (and contrasts) approaches to impermissible motives in the private law and employment contexts.

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, 2024
• University of Cambridge, MPhil, 2020
• Harvard College, B.A., 2018

Publications

• Taking Old Ladies’ Homes: A Comparative Exploration of Eminent Domain in Islamic Law, 138 HARV. L. REV. 841 (2025).

• Notaries in the Practice of Islamic Law: ‘Udūl Ledgers from 19th-Century Tunisia, ISLAMIC L. & SOC. (forthcoming 2025). 

   

Tom Zur

 

Tom is the Jacobson Fellow at ������. Tom is concurrently an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, and a PhD candidate at the Hebrew University School of Economics. Before Law school, Tom served as a law clerk for Justice Ofer Grosskopf of the Supreme Court of Israel. 

Her research uses behavioral economics to study the US criminal justice system, integrating empirical (observational and experimental) and theoretical tools to explore questions about judicial decision-making and law enforcement.

Education

• Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2022–Present
• Hebrew University School of Economics, Ph.D. Candidate, 2024–Present
• Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2022 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
• Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics, B.A. Magna cum Laude, 2023
• Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, LL.B. Magna cum Laude, 2020

Publications and Works in Progress

• When the Law of Small Numbers Meets the Law: A Theory of Judicial Quotas in Pre-Trial Detention Hearings (work in progress; draft available upon request)
• Decision Cascades (under review) (with Adi Leibovitch)
• Early Isn’t Always Better: Experimental Evidence on the Deterrent Effect of Delayed Enforcement (Revise & Resubmit, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization) (awarded the Harvard Law School Steven L. Werner Prize in Criminal Justice )
• How do People Learn from Not Being Caught? An Experimental Investigation of a “Non-Occurrence Bias” (under review) (awarded the Göran Skogh Award by the European Association of Law and Economics and the Harvard Law School John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics)
• , 36 NeurIPS Proceedings (2024) (with Neel Guha et al.)
• A Theory of Remedies for Loss of Future Earnings in the Presence of Wage Disparities, 46 Tel Aviv U. L. Rev.  289 (Iyuney Mishpat) (2022) (with Omer Y. Peled) (Hebrew)