Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityVisiting Fellows
Fall 2008
September 8th - 12th
F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law,
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
F. Scott Kieff is a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . He joined the faculty of Washington University in 2001, after transitioning from his practice as a trial lawyer and intellectual property lawyer by serving as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law. He served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in the spring of 2007. Before joining Hoover in 2003 as a national fellow through 2005, he was for two years a faculty fellow in the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School. He was appointed in 2005 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to be a member of the court's pilot appellate mediation panel.
Scott graduated with a degree in molecular biology and applied microeconomics from MIT in 1991; and as an undergraduate was awarded a two-year fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation for research in molecular genetics at the Whitehead Institute. He was admitted to the New York Bar after graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Giles S. Rich on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has since been admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, as well as other state and federal bars.
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, September 9th, 12 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Commons
Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition
September 15th - 19th
Pierre Larouche, Professor of Competition Law, and Co-Director, Tillburg Law and Economics Centre Tillburg University
Pierre Larouche is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University and Co-Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). He is also a professor at the College of Europe ( Bruges ). He is a member of the Quebec Bar (1991). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of McGill University (Montreal ) in 1990. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991-1992. In 1993, he obtained a masters degree from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn. Thereafter he practised law for three years within the European Community law unit of Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot in Brussels . From 1996 to 2002, he was at the Universiteit Maastricht, working with Professor Walter van Gerven in the Ius Commune Casebooks Project, which led to the publication of the Casebook on Tort (2000). At the same time, he obtained his doctorate in 2000 (published as Competition Law and Regulation in European Telecommunications ). His teaching and research interests include competition law, telecommunications law, media law, basic Community law and the common European law of torts. He is one of the chief editors of the journal “Competition and Regulation in Network Industries”. He was a guest professor at McGill University (2002) and National University of Singapore (2004, 2006, 2008).
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, September 16th, 12 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Commons
Network Neutrality in the EU
September 15th - 17th
Joshua Gans, Professor of Management-Information Economics, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
Professor Joshua Gans is a highly experienced economic researcher and consultant. At MBS, and previously at the University of New South Wales, Joshua has taught across a wide range of subjects and courses, including managerial economics, the economics of innovation, competition and regulation, incentives and contracts and advanced game theory.
Joshua's research interests are diverse, ranging from the economics of innovation to game theory and intellectual property. Widely published in journals and book chapters, as well as in the popular press, Joshua has written papers on economic growth, industrial organisation, intellectual property a nd various aspects of the regulation of market power.
Joshua is also founder and director of CoRE Research, where he advises on all aspects of infrastructure development and regulation, as well as trade practices and competition policy. Joshua has consulted across a wide range of industries, to numerous clients including the BHP, United Energy, Fairfax, the National Australia Bank and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
September 22nd - 26th
Joshua D. Wright, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law,
Visiting Professor, University of Texas School of Law
Joshua D. Wright is an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Wright was also appointed to the newly created position of Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, where he will serve while on leave from George Mason in the 2007-08 academic year. Professor Wright is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law, where he was a managing editor of the UCLA Law Review . He also holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from UCLA. Professor Wright served as a law clerk to the Honorable James V. Selna, United States District Court, Central District of California.
Professor Wright's research focuses on the law and economics of the competitive process for product distribution, including slotting allowances, category management, exclusive dealing, payola, and other marketing relationships. Professor Wright's teaching interests include Antitrust, Contracts, Law and Economics, and Quantitative Methods. He has taught courses in law and economics at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy and UCLA.
Professor Wright is a regular contributor to Truth on the Market, a weblog dedicated to academic commentary on law, business, and economics.
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, September 23rd, 12 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Commons
Is Antitrust Too Complicated for Generalist Judges? The Impact of Economic Complexity & Judicial Training on Appeals
October 13th - 17th
David A. Hyman,
Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor, and Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois College of Law
David A. Hyman is a Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois . He is the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor, and Director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy. He teaches or has taught health care regulation, civil procedure, insurance law, law & economics, professional responsibility, and tax policy. He focuses his research and writing 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, ""Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition"" (2004).
Professor Hyman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas and George Washington University Schools of Law, and a Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. He has done trial and appellate work, and is admitted to the Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court.
Professor Hyman earned a BA (1983), JD (1989), and MD (1991) from the University of Chicago .
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, October 14th, 12 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Commons
The Impact of Early Settlement Offers: Evidence From Texas Malpractice Cases (abstract)
October 27th - 30th
Barry R. Weingast,
Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Stanford University, Department of Political Science, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Barry R. Weingast is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University; he served as chair of that department from 1996 to 2001. He is also a professor of economics, by courtesy, at the university. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993 to 1994.
Weingast is an expert in political economy and public policy, the political foundation of markets and economic reform, U.S. politics, and regulation. His current research focuses on the political determinants of public policymaking and the political foundations of markets and democracy.
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, October 28th, 12 p.m. in the Law School Faculty Commons
Self-Enforcing Constitutions: With an Application to Democratic Stability in America's First Century
November 5th - November 7th
John R. Allison, Mary John and Ralph Spence Centennial Professor of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management.
John Allison received his J.D. from Baylor University with highest honors and was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. His primary research interests include the empirical study of patents, patent systems, and patent litigation. His primary teaching interests include patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks.
December 8th - December 12th
Hans-Bernd Schäfer,
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics, George Mason University School of Law, and
Faculty of Economics, University of Hamburg
Hans-Bernd Schäfer, is a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics at George Mason University School of Law, and is also on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Hamburg. In addition, he is director of the Ph.D. Graduate College on Law and Economics. His main fields of interest are economic analysis of civil law and development economics. He is co-author of the textbook "The Economic Analysis of Civil Law" which was recently published by Edward Elgar, and he has authored a series of articles on law and economics.
Professor Schäfer teaches courses dealing with the European Constitution and European Law.
Spring 2008
April 14th - April 25th
Jason Johnston, Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
After graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth , Jason Johnston obtained both his J.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan , where he was an Alcoa Fellow in Law and Economics and was elected to Order of the Coif. He served as law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gilbert Merritt, was a civil liability fellow at Yale Law School , and in 1995 came to the Penn Law from Vanderbilt University Law School . Johnston is the founding Director of the Program on Law, the Environment, and Economics and in 2001 became the Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Public Law. Johnston 's research includes both theoretical and empirical projects exploring various aspects of natural resource and environmental law and policy, as well as more general studies of legal rights and entitlements. He is currently in the midst of book-length projects on the law and economics of corporate environmentalism and the centralization of environmental and natural resource regulation, and is organizing a first-of-its kind interdisciplinary conference on the law, economics and science of liability for global warming. Johnston has published dozens of articles, both in various major American law journals such as the Yale Law Journal , Virginia Law Review and Columbia Law Review , as well as in peer-reviewed economics journals such as the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization , and the Journal of Legal Studies . He has served as a Regent for the Policy Academy of the Multistate Working Group on Environmental Management Systems, on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association and on the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science grant review panel. He was an Olin Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. During Fall 2007, Johnston will be in residence at the American Academy in Berlin as the Bosch Public Policy Fellow.
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, April 22nd, 12 p.m., in the Faculty Commons
Climate Change Hysteria and the Supreme Court: The Economic Impact of Global Warming on the U.S. and the Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act
April 7th - April 11th
Jonathan J. Koehler, Professor of Law and Professor of Business, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
He joined the faculty at UT Austin in 1990, and taught classes related to decision making and statistical reasoning at the law school and business school. He studies quantitative reasoning in the law, behavioral decision theory, and the psychology of investment. Professor Koehler was a visiting scholar at Harvard (social cognition) and Stanford (psychology and law), and has served as an expert witness on statistical evidence in many cases. He was also a consultant for the defense in the criminal trial of O. J. Simpson.
Law and Psychology Workshop
Tuesday, April 8th, 4 p.m., in the Searle Center Conference Room (Rubloff 542)
Fingerprint Error Rates and Proficiency Tests: What They Are and Why They Matter
March 3rd - March 7th
Kevin M. Quinn, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. Visiting 2007-2008, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.
Kevin Quinn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and faculty affiliate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His area of specialty is political methodology. He has written on ideal point estimation, Supreme Court decision-making, party competition in multiparty democracies, and methods for ecological inference among other topics. Some current projects involve the use of methods from statistical natural language processing to analyze political rhetoric as well as work on how major newspapers cover Supreme Court decisions. He is also a co-author of the Scythe Statistical Library , an open source C++ library for statistical computation, and MCMCpack , an open source R package for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
Fall 2007
September 17th - September 21st
Adam Cox, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Adam Cox received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1996. In 1999, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Michigan Law Review . After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then served as a Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union and practiced at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He taught at the law school as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law before joining the faculty in 2004.
His teaching and research interests include voting rights, election law, immigration law, and federal jurisdiction and procedure.
October 1st - October 5th
Jacob Gersen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Gersen received his A.B. in Public Policy with honors, magna cum laude from Brown University in 1996, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 2001. He graduated from the Law School with high honors in 2004, where he was also a member of the law review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and joined the faculty in 2005. His principal teaching and research interests include administrative law, legislation, law and politics, torts, and empirical law and economics.
October 8th - October 12th
Sanjai Bhagat, Professor of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder, Leeds School of Business.
Leeds School of Business Graduate Professor of the Year, Sanjai Bhagat teaches Advanced Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, and Entrepreneurial Finance courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder . He has worked previously at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Princeton University , and University of Chicago .
He has published extensively in the leading Finance and Law academic journals (such as, the Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Economics , American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Corporation Law ) and serves as an expert on
• Valuation of high risk technology projects and companies,
• Impact of corporate litigation on a company's share price,
• Corporate governance, and
• Efficiency of the stock-market in trading of technology stocks.
He is a board member of Integra Ventures, a venture-capital company; and of the National Association of Corporate Directors – Colorado Chapter. He is also a founding director of the TiE-Rockies (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a professional group serving the technology entrepreneurs.
He has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Journal of Financial Research , and Journal of Corporate Finance . He has advised U.S. government agencies on corporate governance and finance issues. His work is regularly cited in the popular and financial media such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Economist, New York Times
October 8th - October 12th
Edward McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science, University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Edward J. McCaffery joined the USC law faculty in 1989. An internationally recognized expert in tax law, Professor McCaffery studies tax policy, tax structures, public finance theory including behavioral public finance, as well as property law and theory, intellectual property, and law and economics. He teaches Federal Income Taxation, Property, Intellectual Property, and Tax Law and Policy at USC, and Law and Economics and Law and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
Professor McCaffery's scholarship has been widely cited by economists, government officials, journalists and policy analysts. Among his publications are his recent books, Behavioral Public Finance (which he co-edited); Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler , which proposes a tax system based on taxing spending rather than income; and Taxing Women , which examines how working women suffer under current tax laws. McCaffery has two books forthcoming: A New Ownership Society and Fiscal Confusion: How Citizens Misunderstand Tax and Spending Programs, and Why it Matters (with Jon Baron).
A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University , Professor McCaffery received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his master's degree in economics from USC. He served as a clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was an attorney with Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel before joining the USC Law faculty in 1989. He held the Maurice Jones, Jr., Professorship in Law from 1998 until 2004, when he was named the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law. He served as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law on an interim basis from July 2006 to August 2007.
McCaffery also has served as a visiting professor of law and economics at the California Institute of Technology since 1994. He has chaired the USC Institute on Federal Taxation since 1997, and he founded the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and served as its director from 2000 to 2003. He is an elected fellow of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the American College of Tax Counsel. Professor McCaffery also is of counsel to the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.
November 12th - November 16th
Roman Inderst, Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Frankfurt and London School of Economics
Roman Inderst currently holds a joint appointment at the London School of Economics and the University of Frankfort . He received his BA in European Business Administration from Reutlingen University , a MA in Sociology from the University of Hagen , a MA in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin and his PhD in Economics from the Free University Berlin. His areas of focus is in corporate finance and banking. He is also the Co-editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
November 26th - November 30th
Stefanie Lindquist, Associate Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Stefanie Lindquist's research focuses on judicial politics and public law. She is the co-author of Judging on a Collegial Court : Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek), which was published in 2006. She has been a faculty member of both the Department of Political Science and the Law School at Vanderbilt since 2004, and was previously on the faculty of the both the Political Science and Public Policy Departments at the University of Georgia . She was selected as chair-elect of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association at its Fall 2007 annual meeting, and will start her term next fall at the association's 2008 meeting.
Faculty Workshop (11/29/2007) paper:
Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm: Evaluating Game Theoretic Predictions in State Supreme Courts
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