Institute for Law and Economics

In my second semester at the University of Michigan Law School in 1996, my Torts professor – who currently works for the White House – asked the class if we had heard of Ronald Coase.  My classmate Kelly, who was sitting near the front of a large,

The University of Chicago has received a gift from Andrew and Betsy Rosenfield that will foster interdisciplinary research into pressing social issues.

A very interesting group of essays on the future of law and economics by ten University of Chicago professors.  It is especially interesting in light of the attempt to revitalize law and economics in Chicago.  The essays exhibit a great

The University of Chicago Law School today launched a major new initiative – Law and Economics 2.0 – to expand the scholarship and influence of law and economics in the United States and broaden its impact throughout the world.

Initiative aims to reinvigorate field that school started 8 decades ago

The University of Chicago Law School is the birthplace of a legal movement that uses the tools of economics to understand the law. This approach has enormously influenced many areas of law, from antitrust to contracts.

The University of Chicago School of Law gave birth to the law-and-economics movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Now the school is reasserting its commitment to the study of the law through the lens of economics with an initiative it has dubbed Law and Economics 2.0.