Faculty

Curriculum Vitae

Barak D. Richman

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Office Address:

Assistant Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
Box 90360, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Tel: (919) 613-7244
Fax: (919) 613-7231
E-mail: richman@law.duke.edu
SSRN Website: http://ssrn.com/author=334149

Classes Taught:

Areas of Research:

Education:

2008 (expected) University of California, Berkeley

2002 Harvard Law School

1999 University of California, Berkeley

1993 Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, Israel)

1992 Brown University

Professional Experience:

2003-current
Associate Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law (2003-06 as Asst. Prof)

2002-2003
Law Clerk

Spring 2001
Sophomore Tutorial Instructor
Economics Department, Harvard University

1996-1997
Visiting Lecturer in Economics
Economics Faculty, Hanoi National University

1993-1996
Research Assistant

Publications and Working Papers

Articles

  1. "Understanding the 'Corporate' in Corporate Social Responsibility" Harvard Law & Policy Review, vol.2 (December 2007) (with Aaron Chatterji)
  2. “Rebuilding Illinois Brick: A Functionalist Approach to the Indirect Purchaser Rule” Southern California Law Review, vol.81 (November 2007) (with Christopher Murray)
  3. “Antitrust and Nonprofit Hospital Mergers: A Return to Basics” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol.156 (November 2007)
  4. “Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help?” Health Affairs, vol.26 (Sept./Oct. 2007)
  5. “Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health Care” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 69 (Autumn 2006) (with Clark Havighurst)
  6. “The Corrosive Combination of Nonprofit Monopolies and U.S.Style Health Insurance: Implications for Antitrust and Merger Policy” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol.69 (Autumn 2006)
  7. “A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to Industrialize: The Story and Legacy of Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.” North Carolina Law Review, vol.84 (September 2006) (with Jordi Weinstock and Jason Mehta)
  8. “How Communities Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York” Law and Social Inquiry, vol.31 (Spring 2006)
  9. “A Transaction Cost Economizing Approach to Regulation: Understanding the NIMBY Problem,” Yale Journal on Regulation, vol.23 (Winter 2006) (with Christopher Boerner)
  10. “Behavioral Economics and Health Policy: Understanding Medicaid’s Failure,” Cornell Law Review, vol.90 (March 2005)
  11. “Firms, Courts, and Reputation Mechanisms: Towards a Positive Theory of Private Ordering,” Columbia Law Review, vol.104 (December 2004)
  12. “Organizational Responses to Discontinuous Innovation: A Case Study Approach” International Journal of Innovation Management, vol.VIII (March 2004) (with Jeffrey Macher)
  13. “Modeling Supreme Court Strategic Decision Making: The Congressional Constraint” Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol.XXVIII (May 2003) (with Mario Bergara and Pablo Spiller)
  14. “Mandating Negotiations to Resolve the NIMBY Problem: A Creative Regulatory Response” UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, vol.20 (Spring 2002)
  15. “Examining the Effect of Health Provider Race on Adherence to Asthma Regimes” Research prospectus to the Duke Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1 P30 ES01196101A1. (finding granted) (with Laura Smart Richman and Judith Voynow)
  16. “Transaction Cost Economics: An Assessment of Empirical Research in the Social Sciences” Duke Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 115, (with Jeffrey Macher), available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=924192
  17. "Examining the Effect of Health Provider Race on Adherence to Asthma Regimes" Research prospectus to the Duke Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1 P30 ES-011961-01A1. (finding granted) (with Laura Smart Richman and Judith Voynow)
  18. "The Antitrust of Reputation Mechanisms: Institutional Economics and Concerted Refusals to Deal"
  19. “Do Optimal Deterrence Jury Instructions Optimally Deter? An Empirical Test of the PolinskyShavell Jury Instructions”
  20. “The History, Economics, and Political Economics of Automobile Insurance Regulation”
  21. “National Comparative Advantage and New Institutional Economics: How Political Institutions in Japan and the United States Determine the Flow of Trade”

Book Chapters, Op-Eds, and Shorter Works

  1. “Ethnic Networks, Extralegal Certainty, and Globalisation: Peering into the Diamond Industry,” in LEGAL CERTAINTY BEYOND THE STATE (Hart Publishing, 2007) (Volkmar Gessner, ed.)
  2. "Who Pays for Health Insurance?" Wall Street Journal (September 6, 2007) (with Clark Havighurst)
  3. “The King of Rockingham County and the Original Bridge to Nowhere,” in CONTRACTS STORIES (Foundation Press, 2007) (Douglas Baird, ed.)
  4. “Blood Diamonds’ Many Facets” Raleigh News & Observer (January 11, 2007) (with Joost Pauwelyn)
  5. “Foreword: Health Policy’s Fourth Dimension” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol.69 (Autumn 2006) (with Clark Havighurst)
  6. “Unintended Consequences: A Critical View of U.S. v. Nektalov” New York Law Journal (August 10, 2006)
  7. “Fifty Years of Community Service: A Tribute to Mel Shimm” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol.69 (Summer 2006)
  8. “The Adventures of Keeping Kosher in Vietnam” New York Times (April 23, 1997)

Volumes

Conference & Workshop Presentations

Conferences Organized

Presentations

Academic Honors & Fellowships

2006-2007

2005-2006

2005-2006

2000-1, 2001-2

2000

1997-1998

1996-1997

1992-1993

1992

Professional Affiliations

Personal