Barak D. Richman
Professor of Law
Professor Richman's research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. He teaches contracts, antitrust, and health law, and he has guest taught classes at The Fuqua School of Business and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He was invited to the Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum in 2004, received Duke Law School's Blueprint Award in 2005, and was a recipient of the Provost's Common Fund award in 2006.
Professor Richman received A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is in the process of completing his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Richman also spent one year at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, Israel, studying biblical and talmudic texts.
Prior to coming to Duke, Professor Richman served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1994-1996, he handled international trade legislation as a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, then chaired by the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and from 1996-1997 he lectured in international economics at Hanoi National University as a Henry R. Luce Scholar.
His recent work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Health Affairs,and he recently co-edited with Clark Havighurst a symposium volume of Law and Contemporary Problems entitled "Who Pays? Who Benefits? Distributional Issues in Health Care." Some of his papers are available at http://ssrn.com/author=334149.