Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 4:10pm to 5:45pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

presents

Kathryn Zeiler
Georgetown University Law Center

Do Damage Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums?
A New Approach


Tuesday, March 3, 2015
 4:10 - 5:45
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

Professor Zeiler teaches Torts and Economic Analysis of Health Care Law, and co-directs the Georgetown Law & Economics Workshop. Her research focuses on health care law and economics, medical malpractice liability and insurance, disclosure regulation, experimental economics and  behavioral law and economics. Before joining the faculty in 2003, she received a Ph.D. in Economics from the California Institute of Technology and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. She has been a visiting professor at NYU, Harvard and Boston University Law Schools and has served as a Senior Academic Fellow at Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center. She is an editorial board member for the American Law and Economics Review and Behavioral Science and Policy. She also currently serves as a member of the Max Planck Institute's Scientific Review Board for Research on Collective Goods. Her recent publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics and the UCLA Law Review. She has taught law and economics courses at ETH Zurich, Hebrew University, and the Gerzensee Study Center in Switzerland.

 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.