Bernard S. Black is Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for
Faculty Excellence at University of Texas Law School, Professor of Finance
at University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, co-director of
the Center for Law, Business and Economics at the University of
Texas, and managing director of the Social Science Research Network
and its subnetwork, the Legal Scholarship Network. Professor Black
received his B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. in physics from
University of California at Berkeley and J.D. from Stanford Law
School. He clerked from Judge Patricia M. Wald on the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, practiced
corporate and securities law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
in New York City, and served as Counsel to Commissioner Joseph
Grundfest of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He has
also been Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (1998–2004) and
Columbia Law School (1988–1998). He has been an advisor on company
law, securities law, and corporate governance in Armenia, Brazil
Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, and Vietnam. He has
published several books and numerous articles in law, finance and
economics journals, principally in the areas of corporate and
securities law, international corporate governance, corporate
acquisitions, and corporate finance. His recent articles and
working papers are available at
http://ssrn.com/author=16042.
His books include The Law and Finance of Corporate Acquisitions
(2nd ed., with Ronald Gilson, 1995 and supplement 2003) and Guide to
the Russian Law on Joint Stock Companies (with Reinier Kraakman and Anna
Tarassova (1998).
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David A. Hyman is a Professor of Law and Medicine at the
University of Illinois. He teaches health care regulation, civil
procedure, insurance law, law & economics, professional
responsibility, and tax policy. He has published articles on a wide
variety of issues, but focuses his research on the regulation and
financing of health care. While serving as Special Counsel to the
Federal Trade Commission, Professor Hyman was principal author and
project leader for the first joint report ever issued by the Federal
Trade Commission and Department of Justice, titled "Improving Health
Care: A Dose of Competition." Professor Hyman is a member of the
Illinois and District of Columbia bars and the American Law Institute.
He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has a B.A.
(1983), J.D. (1989), and M.D. (1991) from the University of Chicago.
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William M. Sage, MD, JD is Professor of Law at Columbia
University, where he teaches courses in health law, antitrust,
regulatory theory, and the professions. He currently serves as principal
investigator for the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, a
3-year program of medical malpractice policy research funded by The
Pew Charitable Trusts. Prof. Sage has published more than 50
articles in a variety of legal, health policy, and clinical
journals. He is an elected fellow of the Hastings Center on
bioethics, a recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy
Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a member of
the editorial board of Health Affairs. Prof. Sage received his A.B.
from Harvard College in 1982 and his medical and law degrees from
Stanford University in 1988. He completed internship at Mercy
Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego, and served as a resident
in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 1995, Prof. Sage
practiced corporate and securities law at O'Melveny & Myers in Los
Angeles and, in 1993, headed four working groups of the White House
Task Force on Health Care Reform.
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Charles Silver holds the Roy W. and Eugenia C.
McDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure and is Co-Director of the
Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice, and the Media at the University of
Texas School of Law. He received a B.A. in political science from the
University of Florida in 1979, followed by an M.A. in political
science from the University of Chicago in 1981. During 1983–1984,
he served as Managing Editor of Ethics: A Journal of Social,
Political and Legal Philosophy. He then graduated from the
Yale Law School in 1987 and joined the Texas law faculty the same
year. He has published widely on class actions and complex
lawsuits, attorneys' fees, the professional responsibilities of
lawyers, insurance, and health care law and policy. Professor Silver
currently serves as Associate Reporter on the American Law
Institute's project on Aggregate Litigation.
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Fang Zhang is a graduate student in the LBJ School of Public
Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests
include economic policies relating to health care and other subjects.
She expects to receive her Ph.D. in 2008.
Myungho Paik is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the
University of Texas at Austin, preparing his dissertation on wage
inequality. He received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Yonsei
University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests include
demography, health economics, and economic development as well as
labor economics.