Anup Malani
Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9602
email: amalani@uchicago.edu

Anup Malani is a Professor of Law and the Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago. He is also an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics; a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.; and a Research Affiliate for the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he will serve as the Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Mr. Malani teaches Health Law, Food & Drug Law, Insurance Law, Bankruptcy and Corporations. His research interests include law and economics (welfare evaluation of legal rules, empirical methods, compensation for mass torts), health economics (control of infectious disease, the conduct of clinical trials, medical malpractice liability, placebo effects, and heterogeneity in treatment effects of drugs and devices), and corporate law and finance (executive compensation, the role of non-profit firms). He has had articles published in top law reviews and economics journals, including the Harvard Law Review and the Journal of Political Economy.

Mr. Malani graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2000-2001 and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2001-2002. Mr. Malani received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Department of Economics in 2003. Between 2002 and 2006, Mr. Malani was an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and the Health Evaluation Sciences Department of the University of Virginia Medical School. Malani was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2006. He will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School during the 2008-2009 academic year.