Maya Steinitz

Maya Steinitz

Associate Professor of Law

LLB, Hebrew University Faculty of Law, 1999
LLM, New York University School of Law, 2000
JSD, New York University School of Law, 2005

Highlights:

  • "How Much Is That Lawsuit in the Window? Pricing Legal Claims," (forthcoming 2013). 
  • "The Litigation Finance Contract," 54 William & Mary Law Review 455 (2012)
  • "Transnational Legal Process Theories," in the Oxford Handbook on International Adjudication (forthcoming 2013, Oxford University Press)
  • “Whose Claim is This Anyway? Third-Party Litigation Funding,” 95 Minnesota Law Review 1268 (2011)
  • Arbitrator, ICDR, ICC and FINRA
  • Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration

Professor Maya Steinitz teaches civil procedure, international business transactions, international arbitration, and advanced issues in transnational litigation. Her research focuses on a wide range of topics in public and business international law, transnational dispute resolution and the global legal profession.  She is one of the nation’s leading experts in litigation finance and in that area her current research focuses on litigation finance contracting practices, claim valuation, and the finance of international arbitration and litigation. She recently launched the web-based project: A Model Litigation Finance Contract.  Other research interests include law firm finance, the international judiciary and graduate legal education.  To these topics she applies both social-psychology and economic analysis.

Prior to joining the University of Iowa College of Law as an Associate Professor in the fall of 2011, Professor Steinitz held a dual appointment as an Associate-in-Law and Lecturer at Columbia Law School (2009-2011). She has taught courses in comparative law, international law and international dispute resolution at Columbia Law School, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to joining Columbia Law School, Professor Steinitz served as a litigator at Latham & Watkins, LLP (2003-2009) and Flemming, Zulack & Williamson LLP (2001-2002). She also clerked for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Esther Hayut (1998-1999). She served in various capacities, including consultant and expert, to law firms, NGOs and at the United Nations, advising on both public and private dispute resolution matters .

While in private practice, Professor Steinitz led the representation of the emerging government of Southern Sudan in drafting its national and sub-national constitutions and provided legal advice on various aspects of the Sudanese peace process in what The Deal described as “the most ambitious international pro bono undertaking ever by a commercial law firm.”

Today, Professor Steinitz remains active in international dispute resolution. She serves as an arbitrator, expert and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations and is a Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration.
Click on the following link for her publications.

Research and Teaching Interests include:

  • International Business Law
    • International arbitration
    • Transnational Civil Procedure
  • Public International Law
    • The Middle East
    • Emerging Democracies/Emerging Markets
    • The International Judiciary
    • International legal theory
  • Civil Procedure
    • Litigation and Arbitration Finance
    • Transnational Civil Procedure
    • Conflict and Negotiation Theory
  • The Legal Profession
  • Legal Theory
    • Social psychology and the law
    • Law and economics
    • Legal philosophy

Courses taught (past and present):

  • International Business Transactions
  • International Business Transactions II (Drafting and Negotiating)
  • Civil Procedure
  • International Arbitration in Theory and Practice
  • Select Issues in Transnational Litigation
  • International Courts and Tribunals
  • The Legal Aspects of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
  • Comparative Introduction to American Law
  • Legal Philosophy


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