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Paul H. Rubin Professor of Law and Economics law and economics
Paul H. Rubin is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics in the Economics Department of Emory University and a Professor of Law and Economics at the School of Law. He serves as editor-in-chief of Managerial and Decision Economics. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation and on the Board of Advisors of the Independent Institute, an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Fellow of the Public Choice Society and former Vice President of the Southern Economics Association. Professor Rubin was Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, Chief Economist at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Director of Advertising Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, and Vice-President of Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultants, Inc., a litigation consulting firm in Washington. He has taught economics at the University of Georgia, City University of New York, VPI, and law and economics at George Washington University Law School. Professor Rubin has written or edited several books, and has published over one hundred articles and chapters on economics, law, and regulation. Much of Professor Rubin's writing is in law and economics, with a focus on tort and contract issues. His areas of research interest include law and economics, industrial organization, transaction cost economics, government and business, public choice, regulation and price theory, and evolution and economics. His work has been cited in the professional literature over 1400 times. He has consulted widely on litigation related matters, and has addressed numerous business, professional, policy and academic audiences. He has testified three times before Congress, and has served as an advisor on tort issues to the Congressional Budget Office. Professor Rubin is the author of the well known paper "Why Is the Common Law efficient?" Journal of Legal Studies, 1977, which has been reprinted eight times, in English, Spanish and French. Some of his publications in Law and Economics since coming to Emory are: Tort Reform by Contract, American Enterprise Institute, 1993; "Growing a Legal System in the Post-Communist Economies," Cornell International Law Journal, 1994, "The Role of Lawyers in Changing the Law," Journal of Legal Studies, with Martin Bailey, 1994; "BMW vs Gore: Mitigating The Punitive Economics of Punitive Damages," Supreme Court Economic Review, 1997, with John Calfee and Mark Grady; "Lives Saved or Lives Lost: The Effect of Concealed Handgun Laws on Crime," American Economic Review, 1998, with Hashem Dezhbakhsh; "The State of Nature and the Evolution of Political Preferences," American Law and Economics Review, 2001; "How Humans Make Political Decisions," Jurimetrics: The Journal of Law, Science and Technology, 2001 "Litigation versus Lobbying: Forum Shopping by Rent-Seekers," Public Choice, with Christopher Curran and John Curran, 2001; "Effects of Criminal Procedure On Crime Rates: Mapping Out the Consequences of the Exclusionary Rule,", Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, with Raymond A. Atkins; and "Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect?" with Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Joanna Mehlop Shepherd; American Law and Economics Review, 2003. His most recent book is Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, Rutgers University Press, 2002. Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Law and Economics. B.A. 1963, University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., 1970, Purdue University. |