September 22, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Lester Brickman is a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University.  His areas of expertise include administrative alternatives to mass tort litigation, asbestos litigation, and contingency fee reform.  Mr. Brickman has been a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York City Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Brickman is an authority on attorney fees and has written numerous articles on the subject.

Theodore Eisenberg is the Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.  Mr. Eisenberg clerked for both the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years in private practice, he began teaching at the University of California – Los Angeles. Mr. Eisenberg has used empirical methods to shed light on such diverse subjects as punitive damages, victim impact evidence, capital juries, bias for and against litigants, and chances of success on appeal. He currently teaches bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law, constitutional law, and federal income taxation.

Jonathan Klick is an assistant professor of law and courtesy professor of economics at the Florida State University.  Mr. Klick received his doctoral degree in 2002 and his law degree the following year.  His primary research focus is empirical law and economics, concentrated in the effects of public policy and legal rules on individual behavior.  Mr. Klick has published academic articles in the fields of health economics, law and economics, public economics, formal political theory, and the economics of education.  He serves as an adjunct scholar for AEI's Liability project.

Alexander Tabarrok is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University.  He is also research director for the Independence Institute, assistant editor of The Independent Review, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center.  Mr. Tabarrok’s research includes the theory of voting, political economy and empirical law and economics, including tort reform and judicial electoral systems.  He is the author of several books and has been published in a number of scholarly journals.

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