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Saul Levmore (born 1953) is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, and former Dean of the
University of Chicago Law School
The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious law schools in the world, and has many dist ...
.
Career
Levmore was the Brokaw Professor at the University of Virginia, and he has also been a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Michigan, and Northwestern Universities. He earned a B.A. from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
in 1973, where
William Vickrey
William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the e ...
supervised his thesis; a PhD in Economics from
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
in 1978; and a J.D. from
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by ''U ...
in 1980. Levmore is an elected member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
, and a former president of the American Law Deans Association.
During his time at the University of Virginia, Levmore was a signatory to a letter of fifty-one individuals supporting
Anita Hill
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and ...
during the confirmation hearing of
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 199 ...
. The letter was addressed to then-
Senate Judiciary Committee
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 22 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations, a ...
Chairman
Joe Biden and expressed the signatories' "complete confidence in
ill'ssincerity and good faith."
He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School in 1998 and became Dean in 2001. In March 2009, Levmore stated that he would step down as Dean and return to the faculty and full-time teaching. A search committee was formed and announced Dean
Michael Schill of UCLA as his successor on September 8, 2009.
[University of Chicago Law School: Schill Appointed Next Dean of University of Chicago Law School](_blank)
University of Chicago Law School Levmore's tenure as Dean ended on December 31, 2009.
Levmore had turned down the Deanship in 1994, citing the time it would take away from his family.
Levmore is married to Professor Julie Roin,
who also teaches at the Law School.
Scholarship
His current research interests include
information market
Although information has been bought and sold since ancient times, the idea of an information marketplace is relatively recent. The nature of such markets is still evolving, which complicates development of sustainable business models. However, ...
s,
public choice
Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science".Gordon Tullock, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 9872008, "public choice," ''The New Palgrave Dictionar ...
,
commercial
Commercial may refer to:
* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
and
corporate law, contracts, and
tort
A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. Tort law can be contrasted with criminal law, which deals with criminal wrongs that are punishable ...
s.
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University of Chicago Law School faculty profile. Retrieved November 12, 2007 He has also written in the areas of
game theory
Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...
,
reparations for slavery
Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery and/or their descendants. There are concepts for reparations in legal philosophy and reparations in transitional justice. Reparations can take numer ...
, insurance and
terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
,
product liability
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause. Although the word "product" has br ...
,
tax law
Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a ...
, the development of real and intellectual property rights, and the regulation of
obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it may negatively affect health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's we ...
. He is widely published on these and other topics, and is the author of ''Super Strategies for Games and Puzzles'' and ''Foundations of Tort Law''. He is the co-editor (with
Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum (; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosoph ...
) of the book ''The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation'', published in 2010 by Harvard University Press; he also contributed an article on internet anonymity. Levmore and Nussbaum have also edited a volume entitled "American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature," which was published by Oxford University Press in 2014; Levmore contributed an article on informants and whistle-blowers in literature. In 2017, Levmore and Nussbaum published the book "Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret" with Oxford University Press. The book contains essays on prominent topics connected with aging, each written by one author or the other, often with contrasting positions.
Under his leadership as Dean, the law school embarked on several initiatives designed to address social policy issues, notably the Chicago Judges Project, which studies judicial behavior on the Federal courts, and the Foster Care Project, which looks at legal reforms that will help foster children as they age out of the system. In 2005 Levmore launched, and is a regular contributor to, a unique experiment in legal scholarship, The Faculty Blog at the University of Chicago Law School.
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Among other things, Judge Richard Posner
Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chica ...
first publicly revealed that his mother was a communist in a comment on the faculty blog.
References
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Living people
1953 births
University of Chicago faculty
University of Virginia School of Law faculty
Harvard University staff
Yale Law School alumni
Reparations for slavery
Columbia College (New York) alumni