Title
Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law; Director, Program in Business, Law and Economics

Department
Berkeley Law


Faculty URL
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/robert-cooter/

Email
rdc@law.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-0424

Fax
(510) 642-3767


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Research Expertise and Interest
economic development, constitutional law, private law

Research Description
Robert Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, began teaching in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1975 and joined the Boalt faculty in 1980. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a recipient of various awards and fellowships, including Guggenheim, the Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Research Professorship at Northwestern Law School, and, most recently, the Max Planck Research Prize. He was an Olin visiting professor at the University of Virginia Law School and lectured at the University of Cologne in 1989. He is coeditor of the International Review of Law and Economics. He is one of the founders of the American Law and Economics Association and served from 1994 to 1995 as its president. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Cooter has published a wide variety of articles on private law, constitutional law and economics, and law and economic development.