Kathryn E. Spier

Curriculum Vitae

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Harvard Law School

Address: Harvard Law School, HA302, Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: (617) 496-0019
Fax: (617) 496-4880
E-mail: KSpier@law.harvard.edu

Education

1989 (Graduate) M.I.T., Department of Economics, Ph.D.
1985

(Undergraduate) Yale, B.A. summa cum laude in Mathematics & Economics

Academic and Employment History

2007-present Domenico de Sole Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2008-present)
1990-present NBER Research Associate/Research Associate, Law and Economics Group
2005-2007 Richard M. Paget Distinguished Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
2005-2007Professor of Law, Northwestern University
Fall 2005Robert B. and Candace J. Haas Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
1994-2005 Professor/Associate Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
1989-1994

Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

1993-1994

Olin Fellow, University of Chicago Law School

1993

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago GSB

1993Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School

Editorial and Public Service Positions

1998-present Co Editor,  The RAND Journal of Economics, 2011- present (Associate Editor, 1998-2010).
1997-presentEditorial Board, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
2001-present Editorial Board , B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy
2013-present Advisory Board, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
1999-2012Editorial Board, The International Review of Law and Economics
2004-2007; 1997-2000 Board of Directors, The American Law and Economics Association

Honors and Fellowships

2012-2015 National Science Foundation Award No. SES-1155761, "Contractual Arrangements and Bargaining Institutions in Inter-Firm and Intra-Firm Strategic Environments."
2004-2005 Searle Fund Grant, “Litigation Policy and Tort Reform”
2001-2002 Garvin Prize in Law & Economics, School of Law, Boalt Hall, Berkeley
2002; 2006 Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg
1993-1994 Olin Fellowship, University of Chicago
1992-1993 Olin Fellowship for Junior Faculty
1991-1992 National Science Foundation Grant, No. SES-9109009, “The Strategic Role of Debt: Can Leverage Influence Bargaining Outcomes?”
1988-1989 Olin Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Law and Economics
1985-1988 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

 

Teaching Experience

Law Schools

 

Harvard Law School
Fall 2005; Spring 2008- Business Strategy for Lawyers
Fall 2008- Analytical Methods for Lawyers
2009- Law, Economics and Organizations Research Seminar
Spring 2010 Business Strategy in the Entertainment Industry Reading Group
Spring 2011 Competitive Strategy and Antitrust Reading Group
Fall 2008, 2009, 2010 Olin Spanish Law and Economics Seminar
Spring 2012 The Federal Judicial Center Law and Society Program
Northwestern University Law School
Fall 2004 Business Strategy for Lawyers
Business Schools
Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management
1994-2007 Strategy and Organization, MBA
Spring 2000 Ph.D. Research Seminar
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Fall 1993 Microeconomics, MBA
Faculties of Arts and Sciences (Economics)
Northwestern University College of Arts & Sciences
(Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences Program)
Spring 2003 Business Strategy and Organization, undergraduate
Harvard University, Department of Economics
1989-1992 Mathematics for Economists, Ph.D.
1990-1991 Economics of Uncertainty and Information
1990-1992 Research in Microeconomics, undergraduate
1992 Bargaining and Contracts with Applications: Industrial Organization and the Economics Analysis of the Law, Ph.D.
1989-1993 Critical Seminar in Economic Theory
1989-1993 Advanced Theory Workshop (With other faculty)
1992-1993 Law and Economics: Research Seminar