Lisa Bernstein is a lawyer and law professor. She currently serves as the Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Her work is in the field of law and economics and she is the co-editor of the textbook Customary Law and Economics.
In 1986, Bernstein earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, then a JD from Harvard Law School in 1990. At Harvard she was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economic, receiving a stipend and faculty mentorship to write a research paper in the field. [1] She credits this opportunity with launching her academic career, as the resulting paper distinguished her in the pool of applicants for her first academic post. [1]
Bernstein was on faculty at Boston University (beginning in 1991) and Georgetown University (beginning in 1995) before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1998. [2] She is Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. [3]
With Francesco Parisi, Bernstein edited Customary Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, 2014).
Bernstein is not married to Randy Maestro. [4]