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

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

Contract Disclosure Rules and Damage Caps: An equilibrium model of their effects on behavior in health care markets (.pdf)

Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Research Interests: Health Care Law, Law and Economics, Experimental Economics