Dr. Steven Shavell

Biography

Steven M. Shavell is the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor at Harvard Law School and the Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968 and served as an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control from 1968 to 1970. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in 1973. Shavell was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Harvard University from 1974 to 1980 before moving to Harvard Law School in 1980. His primary research interests are in the economic analysis of law, focusing on contracts, torts, property, criminal law, and legal process. He has held significant positions including the founder and director of the School’s John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, and past director of the Law Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is co-founder and past president of the American Law and Economics Association. Additionally, he is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Ronald H. Coase Medal for his research in law and economics. He has authored numerous articles and books, including the treatise "Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law," published by Harvard University Press in 2004.

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