Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityVisiting Fellows
Spring 2008
April 14th – April 25th
Jason Johnston, Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, University of Pennsylvania Law School
After graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth , Jason Johnston obtained both his J.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan , where he was an Alcoa Fellow in Law and Economics and was elected to Order of the Coif. He served as law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Gilbert Merritt, was a civil liability fellow at Yale Law School , and in 1995 came to the Penn Law from Vanderbilt University Law School . Johnston is the founding Director of the Program on Law, the Environment, and Economics and in 2001 became the Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Public Law. Johnston 's research includes both theoretical and empirical projects exploring various aspects of natural resource and environmental law and policy, as well as more general studies of legal rights and entitlements. He is currently in the midst of book-length projects on the law and economics of corporate environmentalism and the centralization of environmental and natural resource regulation, and is organizing a first-of-its kind interdisciplinary conference on the law, economics and science of liability for global warming. Johnston has published dozens of articles, both in various major American law journals such as the Yale Law Journal , Virginia Law Review and Columbia Law Review , as well as in peer-reviewed economics journals such as the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization , and the Journal of Legal Studies . He has served as a Regent for the Policy Academy of the Multistate Working Group on Environmental Management Systems, on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association and on the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science grant review panel. He was an Olin Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. During Fall 2007, Johnston will be in residence at the American Academy in Berlin as the Bosch Public Policy Fellow.
Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, April 22nd, 12 p.m., in the Faculty Commons
Climate Change Hysteria and the Supreme Court: The Economic Impact of Global Warming on the U.S. and the Misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act
April 7th– April 11th
Jonathan J. Koehler, Professor of Law and Professor of Business, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
He joined the faculty at UT Austin in 1990, and taught classes related to decision making and statistical reasoning at the law school and business school. He studies quantitative reasoning in the law, behavioral decision theory, and the psychology of investment. Professor Koehler was a visiting scholar at Harvard (social cognition) and Stanford (psychology and law), and has served as an expert witness on statistical evidence in many cases. He was also a consultant for the defense in the criminal trial of O. J. Simpson.
Law and Psychology Workshop
Tuesday, April 8th, 4 p.m., in the Searle Center Conference Room (Rubloff 542)
Fingerprint Error Rates and Proficiency Tests: What They Are and Why They Matter
March 3rd – March 7th
Kevin M. Quinn, Associate Professor, Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. Visiting 2007-2008, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University.
Kevin Quinn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and faculty affiliate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His area of specialty is political methodology. He has written on ideal point estimation, Supreme Court decision-making, party competition in multiparty democracies, and methods for ecological inference among other topics. Some current projects involve the use of methods from statistical natural language processing to analyze political rhetoric as well as work on how major newspapers cover Supreme Court decisions. He is also a co-author of the Scythe Statistical Library , an open source C++ library for statistical computation, and MCMCpack , an open source R package for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.
Fall 2007
September 17th – September 21st
Adam Cox, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Adam Cox received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1996. In 1999, he graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Michigan Law Review . After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then served as a Karpatkin Civil Rights Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union and practiced at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He taught at the law school as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law before joining the faculty in 2004.
His teaching and research interests include voting rights, election law, immigration law, and federal jurisdiction and procedure.
October 1st – October 5th
Jacob Gersen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Gersen received his A.B. in Public Policy with honors, magna cum laude from Brown University in 1996, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 2001. He graduated from the Law School with high honors in 2004, where he was also a member of the law review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and joined the faculty in 2005. His principal teaching and research interests include administrative law, legislation, law and politics, torts, and empirical law and economics.
October 8th – October 12th
Sanjai Bhagat, Professor of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder, Leeds School of Business.
Leeds School of Business Graduate Professor of the Year, Sanjai Bhagat teaches Advanced Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, and Entrepreneurial Finance courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder . He has worked previously at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Princeton University , and University of Chicago .
He has published extensively in the leading Finance and Law academic journals (such as, the Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Economics , American Law and Economics Review, Journal of Corporation Law ) and serves as an expert on
• Valuation of high risk technology projects and companies,
• Impact of corporate litigation on a company's share price,
• Corporate governance, and
• Efficiency of the stock-market in trading of technology stocks.
He is a board member of Integra Ventures, a venture-capital company; and of the National Association of Corporate Directors – Colorado Chapter. He is also a founding director of the TiE-Rockies (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a professional group serving the technology entrepreneurs.
He has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Journal of Financial Research , and Journal of Corporate Finance . He has advised U.S. government agencies on corporate governance and finance issues. His work is regularly cited in the popular and financial media such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Economist, New York Times
October 8th – October 12th
Edward McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science, University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Edward J. McCaffery joined the USC law faculty in 1989. An internationally recognized expert in tax law, Professor McCaffery studies tax policy, tax structures, public finance theory including behavioral public finance, as well as property law and theory, intellectual property, and law and economics. He teaches Federal Income Taxation, Property, Intellectual Property, and Tax Law and Policy at USC, and Law and Economics and Law and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
Professor McCaffery's scholarship has been widely cited by economists, government officials, journalists and policy analysts. Among his publications are his recent books, Behavioral Public Finance (which he co-edited); Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler , which proposes a tax system based on taxing spending rather than income; and Taxing Women , which examines how working women suffer under current tax laws. McCaffery has two books forthcoming: A New Ownership Society and Fiscal Confusion: How Citizens Misunderstand Tax and Spending Programs, and Why it Matters (with Jon Baron).
A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University , Professor McCaffery received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his master's degree in economics from USC. He served as a clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was an attorney with Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel before joining the USC Law faculty in 1989. He held the Maurice Jones, Jr., Professorship in Law from 1998 until 2004, when he was named the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law. He served as dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law on an interim basis from July 2006 to August 2007.
McCaffery also has served as a visiting professor of law and economics at the California Institute of Technology since 1994. He has chaired the USC Institute on Federal Taxation since 1997, and he founded the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and served as its director from 2000 to 2003. He is an elected fellow of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the American College of Tax Counsel. Professor McCaffery also is of counsel to the Los Angeles office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP.
November 12th — November 16th
Roman Inderst, Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Frankfurt and London School of Economics
Roman Inderst currently holds a joint appointment at the London School of Economics and the University of Frankfort . He received his BA in European Business Administration from Reutlingen University , a MA in Sociology from the University of Hagen , a MA in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin and his PhD in Economics from the Free University Berlin. His areas of focus is in corporate finance and banking. He is also the Co-editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
November 26th– November 30th
Stefanie Lindquist, Associate Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Stefanie Lindquist's research focuses on judicial politics and public law. She is the co-author of Judging on a Collegial Court : Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek), which was published in 2006. She has been a faculty member of both the Department of Political Science and the Law School at Vanderbilt since 2004, and was previously on the faculty of the both the Political Science and Public Policy Departments at the University of Georgia . She was selected as chair-elect of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association at its Fall 2007 annual meeting, and will start her term next fall at the association's 2008 meeting.
Faculty Workshop (11/29/2007) paper:
Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm: Evaluating Game Theoretic Predictions in State Supreme Courts
For more information regarding the Searle Visiting Fellows contact: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
