Lobel is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and the author of several books about innovation policy, the new workplace, and behavioral law and economics. Her research is interdisciplinary, published widely in the leading scholarly journals in law, economics, business, and psychology. Lobel's recent work has been featured in CNBC, Fortune, CNN Money and HuffPost. In 2013, she was named one of the 50 Sharpest Minds in Research by The Marker Magazine.

Lobel is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Labor and Employment Law and Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) and the author of Labor and Employment Law (in Hebrew) (Ethics Press, Year). Her latest book, Talent Wants to Be Free: Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free-Riding was published in 2013 by Yale University Press. Other publications include, "The Incentives Matrix: The Comparative Effectiveness of Rewards, Liabilities, Duties" and "Protections for Reporting Illegality" Texas Law Review (2010); "Citizenship, Organizational Citizenship, and the Laws of Overlapping Obligations" California Law Review (2009); "Behavioral Versus Institutional Antecedents of Decentralized Enforcement in Organizations: An Experimental Approach Regulation & Governance (with Feldman) (2008); "Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy" Columbia Law Review (with Amir) (2008); and "The Paradox of Extra-Legal Activism: Critical Legal Consciousness and Transformative Politics" Harvard Law Review (2007).