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Professor Atkinson's research studies the design of legal and political institutions. His work focuses on corporate governance, corporate misconduct, contract theory, and voting procedures. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and student-edited law reviews. Recent projects include examining how prosecutors' concerns about collateral consequences affect assessments of corporate penalties, estimating profits of corporations violating environmental laws, and studying the effects of adopting ranked choice voting. With experience teaching at ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and UCLA Law School, he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2021 after serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Law & Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Nathan holds a Ph.D. in Business from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
University of Wisconsin Law School • Madison, WI
Teaching courses on law, corporate governance, and political institutions.
The Department of Law covers the LL.M. and S.J.D. programs. JD requirements differ as they use the LSAT.