Saul Levmore
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Saul Levmore (b. 1953) is a legal scholar, William B. Graham Professor of Law, and Dean of the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty of the law school in 1998 and became dean in 2001.
His current research interests include information markets, public choice, commercial and corporate law, contracts, and torts. He has also written in the areas of game theory, reparations, insurance and terrorism, product liability, tax law, the development of real and intellectual property rights, and the regulation of obesity. 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.
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. He launched, and is a regular contributor to, a unique experiment in legal scholarship, The Faculty Blog at the University of Chicago Law School.
Prior to coming to Chicago, he was the Brokaw Professor at the University of Virginia, and was a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, Toronto, Michigan, and Northwestern Universities. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1973, a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1978, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980. Levmore is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the current president of the American Law Deans Association.
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