Maytal Gilboa joined the Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2025. Her research focuses on tort law, unjust enrichment, remedies, and private law theory. Her recent research projects explore questions relating to the intersection between private law and societal problems, such as tort law and socio-economic status, tort damages and racial and gender bias, and unjust enrichment and climate change. 

Prior to her appointment at Western University, she was a faculty member at Bar Ilan University (2020–2024). She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2018–2019) and at the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality (2016–2017). Gilboa holds a BA in Management, LL.B (magna cum laude), LL.M and PhD from Tel Aviv University.

She has received various research grants, such as the Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF), the Germen-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development Grant (GIF), and the Tel Aviv University President’s Grant. Her work has been published in legal journals such as Legal Theory, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, and Georgetown Law Journal.