In its 10th year of operation, the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics has continued to produce and disseminate cutting-edge research on the intersection of law and economics in the fields of contract law, energy policy, corporate governance, environmental regulation, criminal justice, and finance, among others. Through the Coase Annual Lecture, International Junior Scholars Forum, bi-weekly Law and Economics Workshop, bi-weekly Psychology and Law Workshop, visiting scholars, student lunch talks, and Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series hosted on the Social Science Research Network, our ideas are continuing to reach far and wide from the University of Chicago to researchers across the globe working at the intersection of law and economics.  

Building on a long tradition of excellence as the birthplace of law in economics, the University of Chicago Law School launched the Institute for Law and Economics in 2011. In February 2013, Dr. Richard Sandor and his wife Ellen became the principal donors to a $10 million endowment in law and economics at the University of Chicago Law School. The Sandors made the gift in honor of Dr. Sandor's mentor, Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase, Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Law School. In recognition, the Institute was renamed the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics.  

As home to many seminal figures in the field, the Law School has dominated the Law and Economics discipline for over 50 years. New generations of law and economics faculty continue to bring law and economics to the forefront of legal scholarship with innovative empirical and theoretical research agendas. Economics and empirical research provide analytical and econometric tools, as well as theoretical frameworks, for studying how legal rules and institutions affect the way people behave.