Zev Eigen

Associate Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-2979
E-mail: z-eigen@northwestern.edu

SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Zev J. Eigen joined the Northwestern faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Law. He holds a courtesy appointment at the Kellogg School of Management as an Associate Professor of Management & Strategy. He is also a Research Fellow with the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University School of Law. Professor Eigen received his JD from Cornell Law School in 1999, and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. His research interests include contracts, labor and employment law, and negotiations and dispute resolution.

Areas of Expertise

Labor Law
Negotiations
Economic Sociology
Law and Society

Employment Law
Contracts
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Courses

Selected Publications

Do Lawyers Really Believe Their Own Hype and Should They? A Natural Experiment in 41 journal of legal studies 239-267 (2012). (with Yair Listokin)
Empirical Studies of Contract in 8 annual review of law & social science _ (2012).
When and Why Individuals Obey Contracts: Experimental Evidence of Consent, Compliance, Promise, and Performance in 41 journal of legal studies 67-93 (2012).
A Moral Contractual Approach to Labor Law Reform: A Template for Using Ethical Principles to Regulate Behavior Where Law Failed to Do So Effectively.

Education

BS with honors, Cornell University
JD, Cornell University Law School
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prior Appointments

Assistant Professor of Law, 2009-2012, Northwestern School of Law
Teaching Fellow (with Prof. Lawrence Susskind), 2007, Harvard Law School
Senior Labor Relations Counsel, 2003-2005, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation