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Richard Abel |
Connell Professor of Law, UCLA. Taught torts since 1969; author of torts chapter in David Kairys, “The Politics of Law” (Basic Books, 1999). He has written extensively in the sociology of law. |
| Lynn Baker | Lynn Baker is the Co-Director of the Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice, and the Media and the Thomas Watt Gregory Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. A leading scholar on issues of professional responsibility in mass tort settlements, federalism, and state and local government law, she is frequently called upon by lawyers and legislators to serve as an expert in these areas. A graduate of Yale Law School, Yale College, and Oxford University, Professor Baker is avid tournament bridge player with five National Championships to her credit. |
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Lynn Blais |
Professor Blais took her A.B. at Wellesley College in 1983, and her J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1988. Before joining the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law in 1991, Professor Blais clerked for the Honorable Wm. Wayne Justice, United States District Court for the E.D. of Texas, and the Honorable Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She also practiced environmental law for a year as a Public Interest Visiting Fellow at the Los Angeles law firm Hall and Phillips. At UT Professor Blais teaches and writes in the areas of Environmental Law, Property Law, and Administrative Law. She has also spent two years as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. |
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Troyen Brennan |
Troyen A. Brennan is Professor of Law and Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and president of the Physician Hospital Organization at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He received his medical, law, and public health degrees at Yale and trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Brennan’s research interests concern legal and ethical issues in medicine and public health, especially quality of care, medical errors, and medical malpractice. |
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Stephen Choi |
Stephen Choi joined the Boalt faculty in 1998. He taught as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996 to 1998. He received his J.D. from Harvard law School in 1994 and his Ph.D. in economics (Harvard University) in 1997. |
| Jack Coffee | John C. Coffee, Jr., is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law B.A., Amherst. Has been a member of the faculties at Columbia and Georgetown University Law Center, and been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University Law School, the University of Virginia Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, and Harvard Law School. Member, National Academy of Sciences panel studying empirical research on sentencing; the National Research Council's Standing Committee on Law and Justice; and the Advisory Panel on Environmental Sentencing Guidelines to the United States Sentencing Commission. Currently member of the SEC's Advisory Committee on the Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes; the Subcouncil on Capital Markets of the United States Competitiveness Policy Council; and the Legal Advisory Board to the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD); and has recently served as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange. Former chairperson of the Section on Business Associations of the Association of American Law Schools. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; listed by the National Law Journal as one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States." |
| Bob Cooter | Professor Cooter began teaching in the Department of Economics at Berkeley in 1975, and joined the Boalt faculty in 1980. He is a pioneer in the field of law and economics. |
| Frank Cross | Frank Cross is the Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and a Professor at the University of Texas Law School. He received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has served as President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Professor Cross' primary research areas are descriptive and normative studies of judicial decisionmaking, the economics of law and litigation, and traditional policy and doctrinal issues in administrative law. He has published in journals including the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and UCLA Law Review. He has also published in peer-reviewed journals and produced several books. |
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Stephen Daniels |
Stephen Daniels is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interest is the civil justice system, with a current focus on plaintiffs' lawyers in Texas. Together with Joanne Martin, he is co-author of Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform (1995) and numerous articles on juries, medical malpractice, products liability, punitive damages, and tort reform. |
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Ted Eisenberg |
Professor Eisenberg is the Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell law School. He has published many empirical studies on various legal topics, including studies on compensatory and punitive damages. |
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Marc Galanter |
Marc Galanter is Bosshard Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. A noted proponent of empirical research on the legal profession. Has written several books, including Tournament of Lawyers: The Transformation of the Big Law Firm (co-authored with T. Palay, 1991). A Fulbright Scholar at the University of Delhi, a Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies and consultant on legal services to the Ford Foundation in India. He has lectured at more than eighty universities in the United States and abroad. He has taught South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and the Law, Contracts, Dispute Processing and Negotiations. He has authored numerous books and articles related to law, the legal profession and the provision of legal services in India. |
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Deborah Hensler |
Deborah R. Hensler, Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution AB, City U. of New York, 1963; PhD, MIT, 1973. RAND, 1973-; faculty, RAND Graduate School, 1980-93; Director, RAND Institute for Civil Justice, 1993-98; senior fellow, RAND, 1998-. Scholar in residence, University of Southern California, 1990; visiting professor, 1991-93; professor, 1993-98. Visiting professor, U. of Chicago, 1991. Joined the Stanford faculty in 1998. Board of Directors, American Judicature Society, 1993-99. |
| David Hyman | Professor Hyman teaches at the University of Maryland School of Law. His research interests are in the area of health care financing and regulation. He has an M.D. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and George Washington University Schools of Law. |
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Sam Issachroff |
Samuel Issacharoff is the Harold J. Medina Professor in Procedural Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. Before moving to Columbia in 1999, Professor Issacharoff was a member of the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law for 10 years. AT UT, he held the Joseph Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. Professor Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of Yale Law School. Prior to joining the UT faculty, he served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin Adams in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and then practiced law in Washington D.C. One of his areas of specialization is complex litigation, an area in which he has published extensively. It is rumored that, despite his departure for Columbia, he might still be welcome in Texas. |
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Herbert Kritzer |
Herbert M. Kritzer is Professor of Political Science and Law and Director of the undergraduate Legal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is the author or coauthor of four books, and numerous articles in social science and law-related journals. He has conducted extensive empirical research on civil justice-related issues, and is currently completing a book manuscript on contingency fee legal practice. |
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Lynn LoPucki |
Lynn M. LoPucki is the Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA Law School. He has conducted a series of empirical studies of the bankruptcy reorganization of large public companies (with Whitford, Eisenberg, and Kalin) and maintains a research database on the subject which is available free at http://www.lopucki.com. He also writes and teaches on the law governing access to information. |
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Tom McGarity |
Thomas O. McGarity holds the W. James Kronzer Chair in Trial and Appellate Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. He has taught Environmental Law, Administrative Law and Torts at UT Law School since 1980. |
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Michelle Mello |
Michelle M. Mello is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Law in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health. She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of interest include medical errors, the medical malpractice system, managed care, mass tort litigation, human subjects research, and bioethics. |
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Geoff Miller |
Geoffrey P. Miller is Max R. Greenburg Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Miller attended Columbia University Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, served as a judicial clerk to Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court, and worked as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel and at a private law firm before entering law teaching. |
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Bill Powers |
Dean Powers received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Harvard Law School in 1973, where he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review (1971-1972) and as managing editor and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review (1972-73). From 1973 to 1974 he was law clerk to Judge Eugene Wright, United States Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit). He currently holds the John Jeffers Research Chair in Law and the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at The University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches Torts, Products Liability, Jurisprudence, Legal Process, Civil Procedure, and Contracts. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and holds the title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Other university appointments have been with the Southern Methodist University School of Law, the University of Michigan School of Law, and the University of Washington School of Law. He is author of, among others, Texas Products Liability Law (2nd ed.) (1992), Cases and Materials in Torts (West 2nd ed. 1998) (with Robertson, Anderson, and Wellborn), and Cases and Materials on Product Liability (West 2nd ed. 1994) (with Fischer). He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he is a Reporter for the Restatement (Third) of Torts -- Apportionment of Liability. He is “Of Counsel” to the Houston law firm of Hogan, Dubose, and Townsend, which specializes in civil appellate litigation. |
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Michael Saks |
Michael J. Saks is Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University. He also has taught at the University of Iowa, Ohio State, Georgetown, and Boston College. He teaches law and science, torts, criminal law, and evidence. He has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Law & Human Behavior and is coeditor of Modern Scientific Evidence (West). His research focuses on empirical studies of the legal system and process, especially decision-making. |
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Ted Schneyer |
Ted Schneyer is the Milton O. Riepe Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. He was on the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty from 1972-86, has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas and Cornell Law Schools, and was a Visiting Scholar in 1981-82 at the American Bar Foundation. His scholarship, which often draws on social science research, focuses on bar politics and the regulation of the American legal profession. |
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Charles Silver |
Charles Silver is the Co-Director of the Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice, and the Media and the Cecil D. Redford Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He has written extensively about issues involving class actions, attorneys' fees, professional responsibility, and liability insurance. He has an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Yale Law School. |
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Wendy Wagner |
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Jay Westbrook |
Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law, The University of Texas School of Law. J.D., 1968, The University of Texas School of Law. Private practice, Washington, D.C. 1969-1980 (Associate and Partner, Surrey & Morse), specializing in bankruptcy reorganization and international commercial litigation. UT faculty 1980-present, teaching bankruptcy, commercial law, and international business law and litigation; Senior Advisor, National Bankruptcy Review Commission. |
