Christopher L. Griffin, Jr.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Christopher L. Griffin’s research interests focus on empirical law and economics, employment discrimination law, disability law, and labor law. Much of his work uses statistical and econometric methods to understand how legal interventions affect social and economic outcomes.
Before earning an MPhil in economics as an Allbritton Scholar at the University of Oxford in 2004, Griffin received his BS, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2002.
Griffin received his JD from Yale Law School in 2010, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review, assisted in teaching a first-year tort law section as a Coker Fellow, participated in the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic, and co-chaired the Progressive Law & Economic Policy Committee of Yale’s ACS chapter. His work also received the Margaret Gruter Prize for excellence in demonstrating how ethology, biology, and related behavioral sciences may deepen our understanding of the law.
Griffin’s work has been published in the Utah Law Review and is forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Sept. 2011). A chapter comparing Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend to the “stakeholder society” will appear in an edited volume scheduled for publication in 2011. Other recent projects include an economic analysis of the Employee Free Choice Act and a study of how empirical social science should be used in constitutional litigation.
