Daniel L. Chen
Assistant Professor of Law
Daniel L. Chen is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at Duke Law School, and a former Kauffman Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He has an AB summa cum laude and SM in applied mathematics/economics, and a JD from Harvard University. He received a PhD in economics from M.I.T. where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. He was also a scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Chicago as well as at Harvard University. He has taught contracts, empirical methods and the law, the economics of interpretation and fundamentalism, and decision theory.
His research has been selected for the Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum and John M. Olin Law and Economics Prize for Best Law and Economics Paper. He has consulted with or worked for International Child Support Africa (NGO), the World Bank, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, NERA Economic Consulting, Cornerstone Research, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom. He published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and many other journals. Please see http://www.duke.edu/~dlc28/papers.htm for recent research.
