Max Schanzenbach

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Max M. Schanzenbach is an American legal scholar and the Seigle Family Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, United States.

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Education

Schanzenbach received his JD from Yale Law School and his PhD in economics from Yale University. [1]

Career

Schanzenbach joined the Northwestern University faculty in 2003 as an assistant professor of law. He was named the Benjamin Mazur Professor of Law there in 2006. [2] In the Spring of 2008, he was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School. Since 2012, he has been the co-editor-in-chief of the American Law and Economics Review . [1]

Work

A 2007 study co-authored by Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff argued that trustees responded appropriately to the introduction of so-called prudent investor laws. [3] [4] Also in 2007, Schanzenbach and Emerson Tiller (who is also a professor at Northwestern) co-authored a study showing that judges appointed by Republicans tend to give harsher sentences for street crime, while those appointed by Democrats tend to punish white-collar criminals more severely. [5] Schanzenbach has also argued that police union contracts are serious impediments to creating incentives for proper police conduct, [6] including the contract made by the union representing officers in the Chicago Police Department. [7]

Personal life

Schanzenbach is married to Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, a professor at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, with whom he has three children. [8] As of 2015, they live in the North Shore area of Chicago, Illinois. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Max Schanzenbach". Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  2. "Schanzenbach Named Mazur Research Professor". Northwestern University. 8 August 2006. Archived from the original on 1 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  3. Schanzenbach, Max M.; Sitkoff, Robert H. (November 2007). "Did Reform of Prudent Trust Investment Laws Change Trust Portfolio Allocation?". The Journal of Law and Economics. 50 (4): 681–711. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.182.3087 . doi:10.1086/519815. S2CID   54878564.
  4. Gold, Andrew S. (2014). Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law. OUP Oxford. p. 113. ISBN   9780191005282.
  5. Higgins, Michael (7 February 2006). "Study ties toughness of judges to politics". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  6. Kaleem, Jaweed (12 October 2016). "Clashes erupt in Portland, Ore., over new police rules". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  7. DePillis, Lydia (15 January 2016). "Public sector unions are under threat. Police unions may be a different story". Wonkblog. Washington Post. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Understanding the Effects of Early Investments in Children". NBER Reporter. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2015. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.