Omri Ben-Shahar (law & economics, contracts, commercial law, intellectual property) at the University of Michigan Law School, where he is Director of the Olin Center for Law & Economics, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Chicago Law School. This appointment certainly solidifies Chicago’s status as having the best ‘under 50’ faculty cohort in law and economics in the U.S. (Yale and Berkeley are not too far behind), and thus promises to continue Chicago’s traditional dominance in the area.



My former colleagues at another university in Middle East have also been moved to online teaching indefinitely, with the students…