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November 3, 2006|Volume 35, Number 9


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Christine Jolls



Christine Jolls is appointed the
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor

Christine M. Jolls, recently appointed as the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization, teaches and writes about employment law, behavioral law and economics, and contracts.

Jolls, who came to Yale this year from Harvard Law School, is considered one of the nation's leading experts in employment law. She is one of the founders of the emerging field of behavioral law and economics, a cutting-edge area of scholarship that incorporates behavioral models into the economic analysis of law.

She is the author or co-author of numerous articles on topics ranging from anti-discrimination laws and accommodation mandates, to the market for federal judicial law clerks, contract modification and the "glass ceiling." These have appeared in the American Economic Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies and the Stanford Law Review, among other scholarly journals, and have been reprinted in several books. Her article "The Law of Implicit Bias" (with Cass R. Sunstein) is forthcoming in the California Law Review, and she is currently working on a book titled "Equality's Tools."

Jolls holds a B.A. (1989) from Stanford University, where she majored in English and quantitative economics; a J.D. (1993, magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, where she won the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics; and a Ph.D. in economics (1995) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She joined the Harvard Law School faculty as assistant professor in 1995. She served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, before returning to the Harvard faculty in 1997. She was named a full professor in 2001 and served as vice dean for scholarship and intellectual life in 2003-2004. She won the Dean's Teaching Award in 2003.

A member of the Massachusetts bar since 1997, Jolls serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she co-directs the Program in Law and Economics.


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Yale expanding nanoscience, quantum engineering focus

New York Times editor to teach journalism course

Spinal cord research of special interest to veterans group

Law librarian took the words right out of their mouths

Yale research team identifies gene for Crohn's disease

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Two investigators win grants for research on women's health issues

Posters showcase work on women and gender

Conference exploring the impact of dams . . .

Journal's special issue focuses on most environmentally harmful products

Lectures will examine the reasons for humans' love of music

Scientists to discuss their work 'Panning for Gold

Seminar to focus on company's genome sequencing technology

Event will showcase cultural dances from around the world

Guitar festival will include performances and master classes

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