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University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Miscellaneous Law School Publications Law School History and Publications 2005 University of Michigan Law School Faculty, 2005-2006 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/miscellaneous Part of the Legal Biography Commons, and the Legal Education Commons Citation University of Michigan Law School, "University of Michigan Law School Faculty, 2005-2006" (2005). Miscellaneous Law School Publications. http://repository.law.umich.edu/miscellaneous/19 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Miscellaneous Law School Publications by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University of Michigan Law School 2005-2006 Fa c u I ty ayman E. Allen has been a pioneer in the use of mathematical logic University of Michigan Law School as a tool of analysis in law as well as in the use of computers in the fieldL of legal research. He has developed a formal system of the logic of LEGAL RELATIONS, which includes underlying systems of propo Faculty sitional, predicate, class, deontic, action, time, and capacitive logic. The primary application of the logic of LEGAL RELATIONS and its "I arrived at the U of M Law School immediately after fi nishing a Ph.D. accompanying LEGAL RELATIONS language is in the drafting and interpretation of legal documents ranging from constitutions and stat in history with the hope and expectation that law school wou ld consti utes to contracts and bylaws. In the field of artificial intelligence and tute another major step in my intellectual growth, not just professional law the LEGAL RELATIONS language has led to generative expert or vocational trai ning in law as a trade. My expectations were more than systems that facilitate analysis of legal provisions having multiple inter pretations stemming from ambiguous expression of logical structure. met by the crew of humanistic intel lectuals- not just historians but His interest in teaching mathematical logic to lawyers has led to the accomplished scholars in phi l osophy, literature, political theory, anthro development of a series of games about logic, mathematics, and law, pology, psychol ogy, and other fields- that made up a large part of the the most notable beingWFF 'N PROOF, EQUATIONS, Law Toe, and The Legal Argument Game of LEGAL Michigan faculty. In this atmosphere, the study of law was the best sort of RELATIONS. Professor Allen is a gradu professional training, the kind that equ ipped me both to enter the profes ate of Princeton with an A. B., Harvard sion at a high level- for me, a Supreme Co urt clerkship- and to get with an M.P.A., andYale with an LL.B. His research interests are mathematical the critical perspective and intellectual training that prepared me fo r the logic, computers and la,,-, instructional academic position that I had aimed at from the start." gaming, and artificial intelligence. He came to Michigan Law School from Yale in 1966. Gerald F. Leonard, '95 Professor Boston University School of Law ichael S. Barr, who !oined the faculty as an assistant profess01· in fall 2001, teaches FmanCiallnstJtutJOns, JunsdJctJOn and Choice euven S. A1·i-Yonah, the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and ofM La1v, and Transnational Law. Barr is currently engaged in a large-scale director of the InternationalTax LL.M. Program, specializes in empirical project on financial services for lo11·- and moderate-income internationalR taxation and international law, and is widely published in Tlw L'n 1vcrsit1 ot households as the faculty investigator for the Detroit Area Study. Barr these subject areas. He also served as consultant to the U.S. Treasury Michi gan La\\ School serves as chair of the Section on Financial Institutions of the Association and OECD on tax competition, and is a member of the Steering is tlw n,111onal leader " of American Law Schools, and \\·as co-organizer of the Law School's Group of the OECD's International Network ForTax Research anc! in the interdisci plinary Conference on Globalization, Law & Development. Barr earned his of the Michigan Governor's Commission on Tax Tribunal Reform. stuclvof the Ia\\. Manv B.A., summa wm laude, from Yale University, an M. Phil. in international Professor Avi- Yonah earned his B.A., summa wm laude, from Hebrew of our fandty hold relations from Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, and his University and then earned three degrees from Han·ard: an A.M. in appointments i nother ].D. from Yale Law School. Barr clerked for Justice David H. Souter of history, a Ph.D. in history, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Hanard U ni1crsil\· the Supreme Court of the United States, and for Judge Pierre N. Leva!, Law School. Avi- Yonah has been a visiting professor of Ia\\· at New departments. Their then of the Southern District of New York. He served in senior posi York Uni,·ersity and the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served multi disc. i pi ina ry tions in the U.S. government from 1994 to 2001: special adviser and as an assistant professor of Ia\\· at Han·ard. In addition, he has prac- approach to questions counselor on the Policy Planning Staff of the State Department; Treasury ticed law with Milbank, T"·eed, Hadley & of hum<1n behavior Secretary Robert E. Rubin's McCloy, New York; Wachtell, Lipton, special assistant; deputy assis Rosen & Katz, e\\· York; and Ropes and soci,1l poliC\' tant secretary of the Treasury & Gray, Boston. His teaching oficrs our students the for community development interests focus on 1·arious aspects of opportunity to pursue policy; and special adviser taxation and international law, on a deeper under to the President. Barr is the origins and develop standing also a nonresident ment of the corporate of the la11 and legal senior fello1v at form, and on China institutions. the Brookings and globalization. Institution. ah 2 ssistant Professor Laura Beny joined the University of Michigan ALaw School in 2003. Beny earned her M.A. and Ph.D. 111 1 .Jcuum The ,1d1 ,llltagt' ot economics at Hanard University, her J.D. at Harvard Law School, ,1 ,\ltichigan edut,ltion �> and her B.A. in economics at Stanford University. At Harvard Law •lw ,1bil1t1 to temper vour School, she was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics from mri Ben-Shahar is the founder and director of the John M. legal <,�udit'' 1\'ilh pr,lctlt,ll 1997 200 I. to Her research interests span law and economics, 0 Olin Center for Law and Economics. Before JOmmg the Law \\'lsdom lrom lht rc•,1lms ol finance, economic institutions, and development. Some of her recent School faculty full time, he taught as an assistant professor of law and bus1nc•ss s< ll'nCl' politics, acti1·ities include presentation of her article, "Reflections on the economics atTel-A1·iy University, was a research fellow at the Israel ,111d the ,lrh. \\1th1g,111 l,m Diversity -Performance Nexus at Elite American Law Firms: Toward Democracy Institute, and clerked at the Supreme Court of Israel. 1s st ant varrb I rom tllll a Theory of a Diversity Norm," at University ofToronto Faculty of Ben-Shahar teaches courses in Contracts and Economic Analysis of "' the n,1t1on\ top-ran�l'd Law, Columbia Law School, UniYersity of Illinois College of Law, and Law, and coordinates the La11· and EconomicsWorkshop. Ben-Shahar hus1ness school> ,111<1 onl1 University ofYirginia School of Law and presentation of her article holds a B.A. in economics and LL.B. from Hebrew University, and ,1 It'll blocks trom lop tt'll "Do Insider Trading Laws Matteri Some Preliminary Comparative an LL.M., S.J.D., and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Ben-Shahar eng.neenng. nwdit ,11 Evidence" (American Law and Economics Review Y7 N I 2005), at the nurstn),. mu>,tt puhl1c writes in the field of contract law. His work has been published in he,1lth and puhl1t pol c 1 Midwestern Law and Economics Association annual meeting and many journals, among them the Yale Law Journal, programs. In toda1's intl'r Northwestern University School of Law. Beny is a research fellow at University ?J Chicaao Law Revien,journal ?J Law, connt•tted world, an llltt'r theWi lliam Davidson Institute at the Economics and Oraanization,journal ?J Leaal d scipl nar1 tppro,lth to Stephen M. Ross School of Business Swdies, and the American Law and Economics till' l,m IS ,1 Ill'< essitv. and at the UniYersity of Michigan and a Review. His article "Contacts without .\11ch g,lll l ,1\\ pro11dt'S 1h member of the American Law and Consent," was the subject matter of studenh 11 ith ,111 em· iron Economics Association and the New a recent symposium published mcnt th,lt c•n,1bles them to York Bar. She was named 2004- by the University ?J Pennsylvania meet that need.' 2005 Faculty Member of the Law Review. Year by the Black Law Students Ellisen S. Turner, '02 Alliance of the University of Associate Michigan Law School. lrell & Manella LLP Los Angeles, California 3 usanna L. Blumenthal researches and teaches in the areas of American legal history, criminal law, trusts and estates, and torts. 1-1. S ''.v\,chi!;<Hl\ opportun1 ,·an Caminker, dean of the Law School, writes, teaches, and Assistant Professor Blumenthal is currently working on a book that t1es lor lntercl"upllll,lr\ E litigates about 1·arious issues of American constitutional law, traces changing conceptions of human agency and responsibility stucl1 ,ne• unJ><H,llleled.