Law and Economics Fellowship
Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the Program in Law and Economics at U.C. Berkeley, School of Law is pleased to announce our fellowship support to these promising students in their academic endeavor in law and economics.
Fall 2008 Law and Economics Fellowship Recipients
First Year Law Students:
Corbin Barthold
Alexandra Burgess
Emily Cabrera
Andrew C. Cao
Christina Chandler
Matthew DalSanto
Bill Friedman
Vanessa Holguin
Blake Holland
Aditi Iyer
Ashley Kustu
Brian Lahti
Ryan Lincoln
Karni Lotan, J.S.D.
Michael Paratore
Lisa Poplawski
Vivek Rao
Ames Smith
Ora Sraboyants
David Waks
Fall 2007 Law and Economics Fellowship Recipients
Law and Economics Scholar Award
Mira Ganor
Mira received her L.L.M. from Boalt Hall in 2003, and she is working on her J.S.D. at Boalt Hall. Mira's main focus is private equity and venture-capital, and she is also interested in the corporate governance of public companies. Mira studied managers’ decision to dismantle staggered boards, agency costs in venture-capital backed firms (with Professor Jesse Fried), and the effects of certain securities regulations on start-up financing. Currently, she is working with Professor Jesse Fried on offshore incorporations and cross-listing. In her next project, she plans to study the information rights of shareholders in private companies.
David Kwok
David received his Master’s in Public Policy in 2006 from the University of California, and he is currently pursuing a J.D. and a Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at University of California, School of Law. His research focuses on the role of private law and private actors in the furtherance of public policy and the delivery of public goods. David is interested in how the private sector’s expanding role presses against the boundaries of tort, property, and contract law. In less developed countries, a smaller public sector may have to prioritize private law infrastructure to encourage growth, and my goal is to provide insight into making such difficult tradeoffs in an evolving legal regime.
Law and Economics Fellow Award
Galen Hancock
Galen received his J.D. in May 2007 from Boalt Hall, and his undergraduate degree in computer science and mathematics, also at U.C. Berkeley in 2003. He is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in economics. His main interests are in public choice and mechanism design as applied to technology law; specifically, he is looking into the public choice implications for conflict of laws and jurisdiction with regard to the Internet and other new technologies.
Andrew Hayashi
Andrew received his M.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003. He is currently working on his PhD. in Economics at University of California and J.D. at Boalt Hall. Andrew's professional goals are to teach and conduct research in the field of Law and Economics. He is interested in bringing rigorous empirical techniques to bear on the study of statutes, legal doctrine, and legal institutions as well as using careful modeling to explain important features of the regulatory environment. His current research applies theoretical and empirical economic analysis to the study of rules of civil procedure; however, his research interests are not limited to this area. In particular, he has a strong interest in the intersection of psychology, economics, and the law of taxation and public finance.
Keith Hiatt
Keith received his B.A. in Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington in 2004. He is currently pursuing both a JD and a PhD in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Keith is particularly interested in the application of economic theory to innovation schemes (including intellectual property and antitrust policy). He also plans to explore economic perspectives on civil rights policy (including disability rights).
Law and Economics Grantee Award
David Depianto
After studying economics and philosophy at UC Davis, David received his J.D. from Georgetown Law Center in 2001. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley, School of Law. The disciplinary perspective for his scholarship is rooted in law and behavioral economics, and he hopes to apply this background to a wide variety of legal questions, including anti-discrimination law, bargaining processes, federal election law, and administrative regulatory standards. His dissertation will empirically trace the subjective well-being (happiness) of women through time and evaluate the significance of the findings in light of the goals of Title VII.
Theocharis Grigoriadis
Theocharis received his L.L.B. and L.L.M. from University of Athens School of Law, and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University. As a graduate student and research intern with the World Bank and the European Commission in Moscow, Aris has worked extensively on economics of transition, legal institutions and post-Soviet economic development, politics of trade and foreign aid, and energy policy. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at U.C. Berkeley. He is doing research on the effectiveness of European development assistance to transitional economies, and on the role of antitrust and state liability regulations in investment protection under the Energy Charter Treaty.
Wei Zhang
Wei received his LL.B. from Fudan University, Shanghai China, M.A. in Law from Wasedo University, Japan, and LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Wei is currently working on his Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley, School of Law. Over the years, Wei's research has focused on private law, including contracts, property and secured transactions. His current concentration is on the economic analysis of property law, especially the conflicts between economic and legal theories of property rights.