Dan Klerman is the Edward G. Lewis Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California. His scholarship concentrates on Civil Procedure, English Legal History, and Law and Economics. His publications include “Law Matters – Less Than We Thought” (Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 2022)(with Holger Spamann), “Forum Selling” (Southern California Law Review, 2016) (with Greg Reilly), “Inferences from Litigated Cases,” (Journal of Legal Studies, 2014) (with Yoon-Ho Alex Lee), and “Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law” (University of Chicago Law Review, 2007).

He has served as Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and on the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association. His legal history work has won prizes from the American Society for Legal History and the Selden Society.

Professor Klerman clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens at the Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner at the 7th Circuit. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Caltech, and Tel Aviv University. In Spring 2024, Professor Klerman will be a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hebrew University. During his time at the Law School, Dan will also be a visiting scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute (BFI).

Dan Klerman teaches Civil Procedure, Property, Law & Economics, and English Legal History. In 2014, he received the Student Bar Association (SBA) Faculty Appreciation (“Outstanding Professor”) Award.