Max Schanzenbach

Benjamin Mazur Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-4425
E-mail: m-schanzenbach@law.northwestern.edu

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Max Schanzenbach joined the Northwestern faculty in 2003 as an assistant professor of law. His primary areas of research interest are employment law, criminal sentencing, and trust law. He has published in such journals as the American Law and Economics Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Employment Law
Business Associations

Criminal Justice
Estates and Trusts

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Prison Time, Fines, and Federal White-Collar Criminals: The Anatomy of a Racial Disparity, JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY, 2006
Jurisdictional Competition for Trust Funds: An Empirical Analysis of Perpetuities and Taxes, 115 YALE LAW JOURNAL 356-437 (2005) (Co-authored by: Robert H. Sitkoff)
Strategic Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence, JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, & ORGANIZATION, 2007
Perpetuities or Taxes? Explaining the Rise of the Perpetual Trust, CARDOZO LAW REVIEW, 2006

Recent Publications

Policing Politics at Sentencing , 103 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1371-1398 , 2009
Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation? , 50 JOURNAL OF LAW & ECONOMICS 681-712, 2007
Reviewing the Sentencing Guidelines: Judicial Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Reform , 75 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 715-760, 2008
Strategic Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence , 23 JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, & ORGANIZATION 24-56, 2007
Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?, February 2007

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EDUCATION

BA, University of Oklahoma
JD, Yale University
PhD, Yale University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Law Clerk, Hon. Alan E. Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2002-2003