Dr. Paul Heaton

Biography

Paul Heaton is a Professor of Law and the Academic Director of the Quattrone Center for Fair Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law. His research applies methodological insights from economics to inform issues of legal and criminal justice policy. Heaton's work spans a wide range of areas within criminal justice, including the measurement of the impacts of criminal justice interventions and the applications of cost-benefit analysis for criminal justice programs. He has evaluated the implications of public policies related to controlled substances and has conducted significant work on policing and courts. His research is widely cited by policymakers and media, and he has published numerous empirical studies on tort law and insurance regulation. Heaton's work is strongly cross-disciplinary and involves collaborations with legal scholars, psychologists, statisticians, physicians, criminologists, and sociologists, with published research in leading scholarly journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Psychological Science, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, and the American Journal of Public Health. Before joining Penn Carey Law, he served as Director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and was a Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

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