Saul Levmore

Saul Levmore (born 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. [cite news|title=U. of C. picks 1 of its own as law dean | author=J. Linn Allen | publisher="Chicago Tribune" | date=2001-05-21]

Levmore turned down the Deanship in 1994, citing the time it would take away from his family.cite news| title=U of C continues law dean search | publisher=Chicago Daily Law Bulletin |date=1994-03-04] Levmore is married to professor Julie Roin, who also teaches at the Law School.

His current research interests include information markets, public choice, commercial and corporate law, contracts, and torts. [http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/levmore Saul Levmore] , University of Chicago Law School faculty profile, accessed 2007-11-12] He has also written in the areas of game theory, reparations for slavery, 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".

In 2005 Levmore launched, and is a regular contributor to, a unique experiment in legal scholarship, The Faculty Blog at the University of Chicago Law School. [ [http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/ The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog] Among other things, Judge Richard Posner first publicly revealed that his mother was a communist in a comment on the faculty blog. cite news|title=Blog comment has some readers seeing Red | author=Jerry Crimmins | publisher=Chicago Daily Law Bulletin | date=2005-10-14]

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.

Since 2006, several tenured professors have left the Law School: Gary Lichtman to UCLA, Philip Hamburger to Columbia, Tracy Meares to Yale, Alan Sykes to Stanford, Albert Alschuler retired and moved to Northwestern, Adrian Vermeule to Harvard and Cass Sunstein to Harvard (though Sunstein will continue to teach part-time at Chicago as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor). [ [http://maroon.uchicago.edu/online_edition/print/480/ Chicago Maroon: Law School Loses Profs to Rival Institutions] Chicago Maroon] . During the same period, faculty members Martha Nussbaum and David Weisbach have turned down offers from Harvard (Nussbaum gives her reasons here: http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2008/02/nussbaum-on-her.html), and several tenured professors have been hired: Lee Anne Fennell, Tom Ginsburg, and Richard McAdams from the University of Illinois, Brian Leiter from the University of Texas, and Anup Malani from the University of Virginia.

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