Richard H. McAdams
Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-2520
email: rmcadams@uchicago.edu

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

Selected for Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (2005); eligible for six academic years.

National Science Foundation Award No. SES-0351530 ($84,822 for 2004-2007) with Janice Nadler, for “Expressive Law in Mixed Motive Games,” jointly funded by the Programs for Law and Social Science; Economics; and Decision, Risk and Management Science.

American Bar Foundation grant ($209,000 for 2002-2006) with Janice Nadler, for “Expressive Law: Testing the Effects of Third-Party Recommendations on Behavior in Coordination Games.”

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Professional Associations:

Annual Review of Law and Social ScienceEditorial Board, 2007-11

American Law and Economics Association
Board of Directors, 2005-08
Program Committee, 2006-2007
Topic Area Organizer and/or Panel Chair, 2001, 2003, 2006 (social norms & behavioral economics); 1998 (criminal law)

Law and Society Association
Chair, Dissertation Prize Committee, 2004-2005
Member, Article Prize Committee, 2003-2004

Reviewer for: Economics & Philosophy; Encyclopedia of Law & Economics (Bouckaert & DeGeest, eds., 2000); Harvard University Press; International Review of Law & Economics; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Journal of Law, Economics & Organization; Journal of Legal Studies; Journal of Policy Analysis & Management; Journal of Politics; Law & History Review; Law & Philosophy; Law & Social Inquiry; Law & Society Review; Review of Law & Economics; Supreme Court Economic Review.

Law, Norms, and Informal Order, an Abstracting Journal of the LSN (Legal Scholarship Network), of the SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Founder and Editor, May 2005 - present

Conference or Symposium Organizer:

American Association of Law Schools
Organizer, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2004
Criminal Law Section panel on “Unreviewable Discretion”

Midwest Law & Economics Association
Co-Organizer (with T. Ginsburg and T. Ulen), Annual Meeting, University of Illinois, October, 2002.

Symposium on Empirical and Experimental Methods in Law
Co-Organizer (with T. Ulen), , University of Illinois, April, 2001
Published in 2002, Illinois Law Review 789-1176 .

Race and Criminal Law
Organizer and Editor, 73 Chicago-Kent Law Review 467-705 (1998).