Participant Bios
The Role of Information in Supporting Legal and Economic Institutions
Triangle Law and Economics Conference
April 27-29, 2007
Duke University
Durham, NC
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Michael B. Abramowicz
Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decisionmaking (.pdf)
Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
Research interests: Intellectual property, Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Insurance Law, and Corporate Law -
Ian Ayres
William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Professor at Yale School of Management, Yale Law School
Research Interests: Contracts, Quantitative Corporate Finance, Civil Rights, Antitrust -
Scott Baker
Should We Pay Federal Circuit Judges More (or Less)? (.pdf)
Professor of Law; Professor of Economics (courtesy), UNC Chapel Hill, School of Law
Research Interests: Law and Economics, Corporate Finance, Contracts, Torts, Property, Intellectual Property -
Albert Choi
Completing Contracts in the Shadow of Costly Verification (.pdf)
Associate Professor of Law; Co-Director, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, University of Virginia School of Law
Research Interests: Law and Economics, Contract Theory, Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, Organization -
Thomas W. Hazlett
Professor of Law & Economics, Director of the Information Economy Project of the National Center for Technology and Law, George Mason University School of Law
Research Interests: Law and Economics, Mass Communications Law -
Tracy Lewis
Martin L. Black, Jr. Professor of Business Administration in Economics, Duke University
Research Interests: Theory of Industrial Organization, Contracting Theory, Management of Innovation and Intellectual Property -
Anup Malani
Valuing Laws as Local Amenities (.pdf)
Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Research Interests: Health Law, Corporations, Bankruptcy -
Edward R. Morrison
Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11 (.pdf)
Associate Professor of Law; Milton Handler Fellow, Columbia Law School
Research Interests: Bankruptcy Law, Law and Economics, Corporate Reorganization, Contracts -
Marco Ottaviani
Aggregation of Information and Beliefs in Prediction Markets (.pdf)
(Mis)selling through Agents (.pdf)
Professor of Economics, London Business School; Research fellow at ELSE (the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution) at University College London
Research Interests: Microeconomics, Industrial economics -
Barak Richman
Associate Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Research Interests: Economics of Contracting, New Institutional Economics, Antitrust, Healthcare Policy -
Chris William Sanchirico
Harnessing Adversarial Process: Optimal Strategic Complementarities in Litigation (.pdf)
A Primary Activity Approach to Proof Burdens (.pdf)
Professor of Law, Business & Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Research interests: Evidentiary Procedure, Distributional Justice, Social Norms, Game Theory, Probability Theory -
Alan Schwartz
Contextual Asymmetry, Contractual Interpretation, and the Choice of External Enforcer (.pdf)
Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University, Law School and School of Management
Research interests: Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Bankruptcy, Commercial Transactions -
George G. Triantis
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Research Interests: Bankruptcy, Commercial Transactions, Contracts, Corporate Finance -
Kathryn Zeiler
Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Research Interests: Health Care Law, Law and Economics, Experimental Economics