Law & Economics Workshop: Christine Jolls

Law and Economics Workshop Series
WS 2009 - 2010 (2)

presents

Professor Christine Jolls

Yale Law School

 Rationality and Consent in Privacy Law

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

4:10 – 6:00
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall

84 Queen’s Park

Christine Jolls is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization at Yale Law  School. She is also the Director of the Law and Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Trained in both law and economics, Jolls received a B.A. in quantitative economics and English from Stanford University, a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. She served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Jolls's major areas of research are employment law, privacy law, behavioral law and economics, and empirical approaches to law and economics. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and many other legal and economic publications.

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