Post Date: March 30, 2004

Professor Steven Shavell

Harvard Law School's John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business recently hosted a conference at which authors presented their chapters for a forthcoming two-volume Handbook of Law and Economics. The Handbook, which will be edited by HLS Professor Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky of Stanford Law School, is part of a prestigious series of handbooks in economics under the overall editorship of Stanford University Professor Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel laureate in economics.

Among the presenters were several Harvard Law School professors who will be contributing chapters for the handbook. Professor Lucian Bebchuk will be authoring a chapter on corporate law; Professor Christine Jolls will contribute a chapter on employment law; and Professor Louis Kaplow's chapter will focus on tax law.

Other presenters included Columbia Law School Professor Avery Katz and Berkeley economics professor Ben Hermalin on contract law, Professor Kathryn Spier of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University on litigation, and University of Chicago Professor Steven Levitt and Harvard Law School graduate and current legal clerk Thomas Miles on the empirical analysis of the public enforcement of law.

The handbook is expected to be published in 2005.