Anup Malani, J.D., Ph.D.

Anup Malani is a professor of law and the Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School.  Malani received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 2003, his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and his B.A. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1992.  Malani clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2000-2001 and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2001-2002.  He is currently a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, MA, and a university fellow at Resource for the Future, in Washington, D.C.  Malani's research interests include the empirical evaluation of legal rules and systems, U.S. health law and health care policy, design and inferences from clinical trials, and control of infectious diseases.  His work has been published in leading economics and legal journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Econometrics, Harvard Law Review, and Columbia Law Review.  He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.  During 2008-2009 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the acting director at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard.