Jonathan M. Barnett
Associate Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
B.A., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Yale Law School
Research Interests: Intellectual property, corporations, business organizations
Selected Publications: "Shopping for Gucci on Canal Street: Status Consumption, Intellectual Property and the Incentive Thesis," 91 Virginia Law Review (2005); "Private Protection of Patentable Goods," 25 Cardozo Law Review (2004).
Courses Taught:
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-4792
E-mail: jbarnett@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=397
Raphael Bostic
Professor, USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development; Director, Master of Real Estate Development Program
B.A. (Psychology and Economics),
Harvard;
Ph.D. (Economics), Stanford University
Research Interests: Consumer banking issues (with particular focus on mortgage and small business lending, bank branching patterns, and credit scoring and automated underwriting); ways in which the Community Reinvestment Act has influenced the behavior of lenders and credit markets; financial markets and institutions, with a particular focus on banks in community development, the role and effects of regulation in banking, housing and homeownership, urban economic growth, wage and earnings profiles, and policy analysis generally
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-1220
E-mail: bostic@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/faculty/detail.php?id=3
Harrison Cheng
Associate Professor of Economics, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. , University of California, Berkeley, 1/1977
Research Interests: General equilibriun, game theory and Chinese economic development.
Selected Publications: "Managerial Autonomy, Contractual Incentives and Productivity in a Transition Economy: Some Evidence from China's TVEs." (Cheng, H., Hsiao, C., Nugent, J. B., Qiu, J.) Pacific Economic Review/Blackwell. Vol. NA (2006)
Contact Information:
Phone:
(213) 740-2105
E-mail:
hacheng@usc.edu
http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003164
Elizabeth Garrett
University Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget; Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, Political Science, and Public Policy, Planning and Development
B.A., University of Oklahoma; J.D., University of Virginia
Research Interests: Legislative process, statutory interpretation, direct democracy, the federal budget process, and administrative law
Selected Publications: "Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy" (3rd ed. (2001) and 1998 Supp. to 2nd ed.) (with William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey) (West Group); "Legislation and Statutory Interpretation" (with William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Philip P. Frickey) (Concepts and Insights Series) (Foundation Press, 2000); “Is the Party Over? Courts and the Political Process.” 2002 Supreme Court Review 95 (2003); “Voting with Cues.” 37 University of Richmond Law Review 1011 (2003); “Institutional Design of a Thayerian Congress” (with Adrian Vermeule). 50 Duke Law Journal 1277 (2001); “The Congressional Budget Process: Strengthening the Party-in-Government.” 100 Columbia Law Review 702 (2000); “The Law and Economics of ‘Informed Voter’ Ballot Notations.” 85 Virginia Law Review 1533 (1999); “Harnessing Politics: The Dynamics of Offset Requirements in the Tax Legislative Process.” 65 University of Chicago Law Review 501 (1998); “Perspective on Direct Democracy: Who Directs Direct Democracy?" 4 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 17 (1997); “Term Limitations and the Myth of the Citizen-Legislator.” 81 Cornell Law Review 623 (1996).
Courses Taught: Law and Political Process, Statutory Interpretation, Administrative Law
Contact Information:
Phone: 213-740-0064
E-mail:
egarrett@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=216
Dr. Thomas W. Gilligan
E. Morgan Stanley Chair
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
Ph.D. (Economics), Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests: Industrial organization and public economics
Selected Publications: "Specialization Decisions within Committee" (with Keith Krehbiel), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (Spring, 1997); "Statistical Causality and Strategic Behavior in Industrial Markets" (with Subrata Sarkar), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (June, 1998); "Structural Constraints on Bias Under the Efficient Partisan Gerrymander" (with John Matsusaka), Public Choice (July, 1999); "Fiscal Policy, Legislature Size, and Political Parties: Evidence from State and Local Governments in the First Half of the 20th Century" (with John Matsusaka), forthcoming, National Tax Journal; "Saints and Markets: Activists and the Supply of Credence Goods" (with Tim Feddersen), unpublished manuscript.
Courses Taught: Managerial Economics (required MBA course), Economics of Pricing, Compensation and Control (MBA elective)
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6531
E-mail: gilligan@marshall.usc.edu
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/web/FBE.cfm?doc_id=1402
Gillian K. Hadfield
Richard L. and Antoinette S. Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Southern California Innovation Project, USC Gould School of Law
J.D., Ph.D. (Economics) Stanford University
Research Interests: Contract theory and law; theories of conflict and dispute resolution; economics of legal institutions and organizations
Selected Publications: "The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System," Michigan Law Review, Vol. 98 (2000); "Changing the Path of the Law," The Path of Law and its Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Courses Taught: Commercial Law, Theories of Conflict and Dispute Resolution, Evaluating the Legal System
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 821-6793
E-mail: ghadfiel@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=220
Ehud Kamar
Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University; LL.B, LL.M., Hebrew University
Research Interests: Corporate law, securities law
Selected Publications: "A Regulatory Competition Theory of Indeterminacy in Corporate Law," 98 Columbia Law Rev. 1908 (1998); "Shareholder litigation Under Indeterminate Corporate Law," 66 Univ. of Chicago Law Rev. 887 (1999); "Price Discrimination in the Market for Corporate Law" (with Marcel Kahan), 86 Cornell Law Rev. 1205 (2001); "The Myth of State Competition in Corporate Law" (with Marcel Kahan), 55 Stanford Law Rev. 679 (2002). "Beyond Competition for Incorporations," 94 Georgetown Law J. 1725 (2006).
Courses Taught: Business Organizations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation.
Contact Information:
Phone: 213-740-4791
E-mail: ekamar@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=225
Daniel M. Klerman
Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Law and History
B.A., Yale; J.D., University of Chicago; Ph.D. (History), University of Chicago
Research Interests: Intellectual Property, economic analysis of legal history
Selected Publications: "The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century England" (with Paul Mahoney), 7 American Law & Economics Review 1 (2005); "Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?," 77 Southern California Law Review 123 (2003); "Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England," 19 Law and History Review 1 (2001).
Courses Taught: Civil Procedure, Intellectual
Property, English Legal History, Law & Economics
Contact Information:
Phone: 213-740-7973
E-mail: dklerman@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=227
Shmuel Leshem
Associate Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law; Co-Director, Center in Law, Economics and Organization
LL.B. (Law and Economics), M.B.A. (Finance and Accounting), Hebrew University; LL.M., J.S.D., New York University School of Law
Research Interests: Law and economics; business organizations
Selected Publications: "A Signaling Theory of Termination Fees in Mergers" (working paper).
Courses Taught: Business Organizations
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-7939
E-mail: sleshem@law.usc.ed
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=398
Anthony M. Marino
Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California; Co-Director, Center in Law, Economics and Organization
Research Interests: Economics of regulation and managerial contracting; safety regulation and the economics of organizations
Selected Publications: "Incentive Contracts for Managers who Discover and Manage Investment Projects" (with Y. Chan and T. Campbell), 12 J. of Econ. Behavior and Organization 353 (1989); "An Incentive Based Theory of Bank Regulation" (with T. Campbell and Y-S Chan), 2 J. of Financial Intermediation 255 (1992); "Incentives for Information Production and Optimal Job Assignment with Human Capital Considerations" (with T. Campbell and Y-S Chan), 60 Economica 13 (1993); "Myopic Investment Decisions and Competitive Labor Markets" (with T. Campbell), 35 International Economic Rev. 855 (1994); "Regulation of Performance Standards versus Equipment Specification with Asymmetric Information," 14 J. of Regulatory Economics 5 (1998).
Courses Taught: Managerial Economics, Selected Issues in Microeconomics
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6525
E-mail: amarino@marshall.usc.edu
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/web/FBE.cfm?doc_id=1413
John G. Matsusaka
Professor of Finance and Business Economics in the Marshall School of
Business, Gould School of Law and Department of Political Science; President, Initiative
and Referendum Institut; Vice Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs
B.A., University of Washington; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests: Corporate and industrial organization; mergers and acquisitions; divestitures and diversifications; political economy; government budgets
Selected Publications: "Political Resource Allocation: Benefits and Costs of Voter Initiatives," (with Nolan M. McCarty) (J. of Law, Econ., and Org. 2001); "Corporate Diversification, Value Maximization, and Organizational Capabilities," (J. of Business 2001); "Fiscal Effects of the Voter Initiative in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," 43 Journal of Law and Economics 619-650 (2000); "Demand for Environmental Goods: Evidence from Voting Patterns of California Initiatives," (with Matthew E. Kahn), 40 J. of Law and Econ. 137-173 (1997); "Did Tough Antitrust Enforcement Cause the Diversification of American Corporations?," 31 J. of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 283-294 (1996); "Systematic Deviations from Constituent Interests: The Role of Legislative Structure and Political Parties in the States," (with Thomas W. Gilligan), 84 Economic Inquiry 383-401 (1995).
Courses Taught: Economic Analysis for Business
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6495
E-mail:matsusak@rcf.usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~matsusak/
Edward J. McCaffery
Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science, USC Gould School of Law
Research Interests: Tax, Property, Feminist Economics, Intellectual Property
Selected Publications: Fair, Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Simpler and Better, (U. of Chicago Press 2002); "Must We Have the Right to Waste?," in New Essays in the Legal and Philosophical Theory of Property, Steven Munzer, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Taxing Women (1997; 1999 paperback) (U. Chicago Press); Framing the Jury: Cognitive Perspectives on Pain and Suffering Awards (with Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Spitzer), 81 Virginia Law Review 1341 (1995); "The Political Liberal Case against the Estate Tax," 23 Philosophy & Public Affairs 281 (1994); "Cognitive Theory and Tax, 41 UCLA Law Review 1861 (1994); "The Uneasy Case for Wealth Transfer Taxation," 104 Yale Law Journal 283 (1994); "Slouching Towards Equality: Gender Discrimination, Market Efficiency and Social Change," 103 Yale Law Journal 595 (1993).
Courses Taught: Taxation, Introduction to Law and Law & Economics, Law & Technology, Property
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6473
E-mail: emccaffe@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=237
Mathew D. McCubbins
Provost Professor of Business, Law, and Political Economy, University of Southern California; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law and Politics
B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Research Interests: American politics and policy; comparative legislative studies; initiatives and referenda; budgetary policy; organization theory; the positive political theory of law; learning, cognition and choice; statutory interpretation; legislative-bureaucratic relations.
Selected Publications: Go to http://mccubbins.ucsd.edu;
Co-author of six books, The Logic of Delegation, winner of
the American Political Science Association's 1992 Gladys M. Kammerer Award; Legislative Leviathan (First and Second Editions), winner of the American Political Science Association, Legislative Studies Section's 1994 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize; The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?; Stealing the Initiative; and most recently, Setting the Agenda: Responsible Party Government in the US House of Representatives. He is also editor or co-editor of eight additional books and has authored more than ninety scientific entries, including
"Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols vs. Fire Alarms" (with Thomas Schwartz), American Journal of Political Science, February 1984; "Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control" (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Fall, 1987; "Positive Canons: The Role of Legislative Bargains in Statutory Interpretation" (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Georgetown Law Journal, February 1992; "Legislative Intent: The Use of Positive Political Theory in Statutory Interpretation" (with Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast), Law and Contemporary Problems, Winter 1994; "Designing Bureaucratic Accountability" (with Arthur Lupia), Law and Contemporary Problems, Winter 1994; "Social Choice, Crypto-Initiatives and Policy Making by Direct Democracy" (with Thad Kousser). Southern California Law Review, 2005; "Canonical Construction and Statutory Revisionism: The Strange Case of the Appropriations" (with Daniel B. Rodriguez), Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 2005.
Courses Taught: Law and Public Policy; Statutory Interpretation
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-4789
E-mail: mmccubbins@ucsd.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=1432
Kevin J. Murphy
Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the Marshall School, Professor of Business and Law in the USC Gould School of Law, and Professor of Economics in the USC Economics Department
M.A., Ph.D. (Econ), University of Chicago
Research Interests: Economics, finance, accounting, organizational behavior
Selected Publications: "Executive Compensation," Handbook of Labor Economics (1999); "Informal Authority in Organizations," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations (1999); "Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options," American Economic Review (2000); "The Prince and the Pauper? CEO Pay in the US and UK," Economic Journal (2000).
Courses Taught:
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6553
E-mail: kjmurphy@usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~kjmurphy/
Stephen J. Read
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Current work focuses on developing and empirically testing neural network models of social learning and reasoning including: constraint satisfaction (coherence based) models of legal reasoning and everyday social reasoning; a model of causal learning and causal reasoning; social stereotype formation, change and judgment
Selected Publications: "Constructing causal scenarios: A knowledge structure approach to causal reasoning," 52 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 288 (1987); "Rapist or regular guy': Explanatory coherence in the construction of mental models of others" (with L.C. Miller), 19 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 526 (1993); "Dissonance and balance in belief systems: The promise of parallel constraint satisfaction processes and connectionist modeling approaches," in R.C. Schank and E.J. Langer, eds., Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision making: Psycho-logic in Honor of Bob Abelson (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1994), pp. 209-235; "Connectionism, Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Processes and Gestalt Principles: (Re)Introducing Cognitive Dynamics to Social Psychology" (with E.J. Vanman and L.C. Miller), 1 Personality and Social Psychology Review 26 (1997); Connectionist Models of Social Reasoning and Social Behavior (with L.S. Miller, eds.), (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998).
Courses Taught: Social Cognition (Psychology 454 and 612), Nonexperimental Research Methods in Social Psychology (Psychology 616)
Contact Information:
Phone: 213-740-2291
E-mail: read@rcf.usc.edu
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~read/
Daria Roithmayr
Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
B.S., University of California Los Angeles; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
Research Interests: Lock-in theory and persistent structural inequality, racial identity and economic decision-making ; racial cartels.
Selected Publications: "Locked in Apartheid: The Lock-In Model of Discrimination," NYU Press (forthcoming); "Locked in Segregation," Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law ( 2004).
Courses Taught: Critical Race Theory; Globalization and the Law; Race, Identity and Economic Decision-making (seminar)
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6228
E-mail: droithmayr@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=399
Dan Simon
Professor of Law and Psychology, USC Gould School of Law
Research Interests: Decision making; reasoning; adjudication; criminal law
Selected Publications: "A Psychological Model of Judicial Reasoning," 30 Rutgers Law Journal 1 (1998); "Bidirectional Reasoning in Decision Making by Constraint Satisfaction" (with Keith J. Holyoak), The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 3 (1999).
Courses Taught: Law and Psychology, Criminal Law, Crime, Law and Society
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-0168
E-mail: dsimon@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=307
Christopher D. Stone
J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law
Research Interests: International environmental law and institutions; global resources; precautionary principle; trade and environment
Selected Publications: Where the Law Ends: The Social Control of Corporate Behavior (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), (Colophon Books, 1976); Earth and Other Ethics (New York: Harper and Row, 1987; paperback, 1988); The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995).
Courses Taught: Property;
Law, Language and Ethics; International Environmental Law
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-2550
E-mail: cstone@law.usc.edu
http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=372
Nina Walton
Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, USC Gould School of Law, Co-Directors, Center in Law, Economics and Organization B.A., LL.B., University of NSW, Australia; Ph.D. (Economics), M.P.P., UCLA
Research Interests: Corporate governance, political economy
Selected publications: Delegated Monitoring: When can boards rely on outside experts? (working paper); Moral Hazard in Campaigns: do political candidates keep hiring their consultants? (working paper)
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-5503
E-mail: nwalton@law.usc.edu
http://lawweb.usc.edu/who/faculty/directory/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=68434
Mark Weinstein
Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, and Associate Professor of Business Finance and Law, USC Gould School of Law
Research Interests: Law and finance, broadly defined, and the economics of the entertainment industries
Selected Publications: "Profit Sharing Contracts in Hollywood: Evolution and Analysis," 27 J. Legal Stud. 67 (1998); "The Appraisal Remedy and Merger Premiums" (with Paul Mahoney), 1 A. L. Econ. Rev. 239 (1999).
Courses Taught: At the Marshall School of Business: Corporate Financial Strategies, Economics and Finance of the Entertainment Industries. At USC Law: Corporate Finance
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6499
E-mail: mark.weinstein@marshall.usc.edu
http://marshallinside.usc.edu/mweinstein/
Simon Wilkie
Professor and Chair of Economics, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
B.A. (Economics), University of New South Wales; M.A. (Economics), Ph.D. (Economics), University of Rochester
Research Interest: Game Theory, wholesale telecommunications market and the concept diversity in media markets
Selected Publications: Serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Economic Theory and has published widely on subjects including spectrum auctions, game theory and telecommunications regulations.
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 743-1719
E-mail: swilkie@law.usc.edu
http://cclp.usc.edu/faculty/wilkie.cfm
Jan Zàbojnìk
Visiting Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall
School of Business, University of Southern California
Ph.D (Economics), Cornell University;
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Slovak Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Applied microeconomic theory (incentives in organizations, corporate tournaments, trade secrets in firms, and relationship-specific investments)
Courses Taught: BUAD 351: Business Economics
Selected Publications: "Sales Maximization and Specific Human Capital," RAND Journal of Economics (1998); "Corporate Tournaments, General Human Capital Acquisition,
and Wage Dispersion" (with Dan Bernhardt), Review of Economic Studies (2001); "Centralized and Decentralized Decision-Making in Organizations,"
Journal of Labor Economics (2002); "A Theory of Trade Secrets in
Firms," International Economics Review (2002); "A Model of Rational
Bias in Self-Assessments," Economic Theory (forthcoming).
Contact Information:
Phone: (213) 740-6497
E-mail: jzabojnik@marshall.usc.edu
