Law and economics

A field born at the University of Chicago Law School in the early 20th century, law and economics has transformed nearly every area of law, including constitutional law, election law, immigration law and international law. The field has grown with seminal contributions from Nobel Prize winners Ronald Coase, Gary Becker and George Stigler, as well as Judge Richard Posner, William Landes, Douglas Baird and Saul Levmore. 

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2011 Ronald H. Coase Lecture in Law and Economics: Economics and Judicial Behavior

Since 1992, the University of Chicago Law School's annual Ronald H. Coase Lecture in Law and Economics has usually given by relatively  younger member of the faculty. This year's Coase Lecture in Law and Economics was given by Professor Thoma...

Sonja Starr

Title: Julius Kreeger Professor of Law & Criminology

Expertise: Racial disparities in criminal justice, Sentencing, Prosecutors, Law and economics

Departmental Website : https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/starr

Thomas Miles

Title: Dean of the Law School; Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics

Expertise: Criminal Justice, Law and economics, Education, Immigration

University website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/miles

Anthony Casey

Title: Donald M. Ephraim Professor of Law and Economics; Faculty Director of the Center on Law and Finance

Expertise: Law and economics, Machine learning

Departmental website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/casey

Saul Levmore

Title: William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law

Expertise: Law and economics, Reparations

University website: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/levmore

M. Todd Henderson

Title: Michael J. Marks Professor of Law

Expertise: Law and economics

Departmental website: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/henderson