Empirical Methods in Law, Second Edition

Professor Thomas Ulen received a bachelorrsquo;s degree from Dartmouth College, a masterrsquo;s from St. Catherinersquo;s College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He holds a Swanlund Chair, one of the highest endowed titles on the Urbana-Champaign campus, and is Director of the Collegersquo;s Program in Law and Economics. In addition, he is a research affiliate of the Environmental Council, a member of the Campus Honors faculty, and holds positions in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Government and Public Affairs. As a scholar, Professor Ulen examines a variety of issues related to economics, legal scholarship, and legal education. He has recently completed work on two new books, Cognition, Rationality, and the Law (with Russell Korobkin; University of Chicago Press) and Foundations of Environmental Policy (with John B. Braden, Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd.). His book, Law and Economics (with Robert Cooter), now in its fourth edition, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, French, and Russian. A prolific writer and researcher, Professor Ulen has contributed four entriesmdash;on regulation generally, quantity regulation, price regulation, and quality regulationmdash;for the Oxford Economic History of the United States and a chapter entitled, ldquo;The Limits of Law for Imperfectly Rational Actorsrdquo; for Law and Irrational Behavior (Francesco Parisi, ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). In addition, he is editing a book of legal humor, and expanding his Illinois Law Review article, ldquo;A Nobel Prize in Legal Science,rdquo; into a book.