He holds an LL.B. (1998, magna cum laude) and a B.A. in economics (1998) from the University of Haifa, and an LL.M. (2000) and LL.D. (2005) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Zohar Goshen. He served as a law clerk for Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1999, and as a senior law clerk for the Justice in the years 2000-2002. He also served as a special consultant to the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the Government's Treatment of Holocaust Survivors (2008). During the 2011-2012 academic year Yaad was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. His areas of research include corporate bankruptcy and reorganization law, corporate law, and private international law (conflict of laws).