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The University of Michigan Law School FACULTY 2003-2004 " l arrived at the U of M Law School itmnediately after finishing a Ph.D. in history with the hope and expectation that law school would constitute another major step in my intellectual growth, not just professional or vocational training in law as a trade. My expectations were more than met by the crew of humanistic intellectuals- not just historians but accomplished scholars in philosophy, literature, political theory, anthropology, psychology, and other fields - that made up a large part ofthe Michiganfaculty. In this atmosphere, the study of law 1 was the best sort of professional training, the kind that equipped me both to enter the profession at a high level-for me, a Supreme Court clerkship - and to get the critical perspective and intellectual training that prepared me for the academic position that 1 had aimed at front the start. " Get·ald F. Leonard, '95 Professor Boston University School of Law "As you listen to skilled attorneys and work with judges, you realize the kind of sophisticated, c01nplex understanding they have of what the law means and how it informs so many facets of society. They believe that, they express it, and their work is better for it. At Michigan, 1 had the opportunity to learn from and work with a faculty that was committed to helping students appreciate that kind of complexity." Abigail V. Carter·, '00 Associate, Bredhoff & Kaiser Washington, D.C. 2 E \ CULTY Layman E. Allen Layman E. Allen has been a pio­ drafting and interpretation of of games about logic, mathemat­ neer in the use of mathematical legal documents ranging from ics, and law, the most notable logic as a tool of analysis in law constitutions and statutes to con­ being WFF 'N PROOF, EQUA­ as well as in the use of comput­ tracts and by-laws. In the field of TIONS, and The Legal Argument ers in the field of legal research. artificial intelligence and law the Game of Legal Relations. He has developed a formal legal relations language has led to Professor Allen is a graduate of system of the logic of legal rela­ generative expert systems that Princeton with an A.B., Harvard tions, which includes underlying facilitate analysis of legal provi­ with an M.PA., and Yale with an systems of propositional, predi­ sions having multiple interpreta­ LL.B. His research interests are cate, class, deontic, action, time, tions stemming from ambiguous mathematical logic, computers and capacitive logic. The primary expression of logical structure. and law, instructional gaming, and application of the logic of legal His interest in teaching mathe­ artificial intelligence. He came to relations and its accompanying matical logic to lawyers has led Michigan Law School from Yale legal relations language is in the to the development of a series in 1966. The University of Miehigan Law School is the national leader in the interdisciplinaey study of the law. Many of our faculty hold appointments in other University depar·tments. Their multidisciplinary approach to questions of human behavioe and 3 soeial policy offers our students the opportunity to pursue a deept>r understanding of the law and legal institutions. Reuven S.Avi-Yonah, the Irwin I. Hebrew University and then professor of history at Boston Cohn Professor of Law, special­ earned three degrees from College. In ad dition, he has prac­ izes in international taxation and Harvard: an A.M. in history, a ticed law with Milbank,Tweed, multinational enterprises, and is Ph.D. in history, and a J.D., magna Hadley & McCloy, New York; widely published in these subject cum laude, from Harvard Law Wachtel!, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, areas. He also served as consult­ School. Avi-Yonah has been a vis­ New York; and Ropes & Gray, ant to the U.S. Treasury on tax iting professor of law at the Boston. His teaching interests competition and to the joint University of Michigan, New York focus on various aspects of taxa­ Committee on Taxation on inter­ University, and the University of tion and multinational enterprise. national tax simplification. Pennsylvania. He has also served Professor A vi-Yonah earned his as an assistant professor of law B.A., summa cum laude, from at Harvard and as an assistant Reuven S. Avi- Yonah Michael S. Barr Michael S. Barr. who joined the University. an M. Ph il in the Policy Planning Staff of the faculty as an assistant professor International Relations from State Department Treasury in fall 200 I , teaches Financial Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Secretary Robert E. Rubin's Institutions, Jurisdiction and Rhodes Scholar. and his J.D. from special assistant deputy assistant Choice of Law, and Transnational Yale Law School. Barr clerked for secretary of the Treasury for Law. His research currently Justice David H. Souter of the community development policy; focuses on access to capital and Supreme Court of the United and special advisor to the financial services. He has also States. and for Judge Pierre N. President. Ban· has been a visiting written on international labor Leval. then of the Southern fellow at the Brookings and environmental rights in trade District of New York. He served Institution. where he remains a agreements, refugee law. and in senior positions in the U.S. nonresident senior fellow. health policy Barr earned his government from 1994 to 200 I : B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale special advisor and counselor on .. I have been prepared for my work as a writer, Lawyer, advocate, and teacher, because of my time at what is one o.fthe.finest Law sclwols in the country. /learned how to ask the hard questions, and I Learned how to start anstcering them- this is a process that continues without end, but it was in Ann .4rbor that it had its 4 Mart. I have been able to write two books about diversity and civil rights. based on my training ell Jlllichigan. I owe a debt ofgratitude to the institution and especially itsj(Lcttfty. " F'r·ank Wu , '91 PI'Ofessor. Llowar·d Univer·sity Law Sehool Omri Ben-Shahar is the founder designed the new interdiscipli­ contract law. His work has been and director of the John M. Olin nary course Analytical Methods publi shed in many journals. Center for Law and Economics. for Lawyers. He is also the coor­ among them the Yale Law journal, Before joining the Law School dinator of the Law and University of Chicago Law Review, faculty fulltime, he taught as an Economics Workshop. Ben­ Journal of Law, Economics and assistant professor of law and Shahar holds a B.A. in economics Organization, journal of Legal economics at Tel-Aviv University, and LL.B. from Hebrew Studies, American Law and was a research fellow at the University, and an LL.M., S.J.D. , Economics Review, and University Israel Democracy Institute, and and Ph.D. in economics from of Pennsylvania Law Review. He is clerked at the Supreme Court of Harvard, where he was a also a frequent presenter at Israel. Ben-Shahar teaches Fullbright Fellow and an Olin annual meetings of the American courses in Contracts and Fellow in Law and Economics. Law and Economics Association. Economic Analysis of Law. an d Ben-Shahar writes in the field of Omri Ben-Shahar Laura Beny Laura Beny won the N ational paper "Market-Based Approaches based National Buneau of Science Foundation and Harvand to African Wildlife Conservation" Economic Research. From 200 I to Prize fellowships in support of her won the John G Sobieski Awand 2003, Beny practiced law at work toward her M.A. and Ph.D. in for outstanding senior thesis. She Debevoise & Plimpton in New economics at Harvard University helped an internationally nenowned York City Her nesearch intenests and earned her J.D. at Harvand Law labor economist at Harvard include a broad range of topics at School and her B.A. with distinction University to analyze the impact of the intersection of law and in economics at Stanfond labor market neforrns in the economics, finance, and University At Harvard Law School, People's Republic of China and to development. Beny is a member of she won the John M. Olin Prize for assemble a database of U.S. public the American Law and Economics Outstanding Paper in Law and companies providing stock option Association. She was admitted to Economics and was a John M. Olin compensation to nonexecutive the New York Bar in 2002. Fellow in Law and Economics from employees during her work with 1997 to 200 I. At Stanford, her the Cambridge, Massachusetts- ·'Michigan 's opportunities for interdisciplinary study are unpctralleled . In my short time here, I h11ve taken conrses in bu siness, economics, and na tural resonrr·e management.