Legal and Regulatory Studies

The Legal and Regulatory Studies division of the Searle Center sponsors faculty research activities through projects designed to focus on specific areas. Much of this research reflects the strong empirical focus of the Northwestern faculty. Research projects, usually spanning at least three years, incorporate a variety of activities including research roundtables, commissioned papers, and research symposia. Current research projects are:

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
- Advances the understanding of how laws and regulations affect innovation and entrepreneurship.
Competition, Antitrust, and Regulation
- Applies cutting-edge developments in industrial organization economics to antitrust law and competition policy.
Judicial Behavior

Co-Directors, Lee Epstein, Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern Law; William M. Landes, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School, and Judge Richard A. Posner, U.S. Cort of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.