Professor Robert D. Cooter, Berkeley School of Law.
Robert Cooter is currently the Herman F. Selvin Professor at Berkeley’s law school. He is a pioneer in the field of law and economics and has received various awards and fellowships, including Institute for Advanced Study, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim, Max Planck, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Humboldt Research Prize, and the European Law and Economics Association Distinction Award for 2011. He was also engaged in foundation of various law and economics associations.
Professor William E. Kovacic, George Washington University
William E. Kovacic is currently a professor of Global Competition Law and Policy and the director of the Competition Law Center at George Washington University. Before joining the George Washington Law School in 1999, he served various duties at Federal Trade Commission, including acting as an FTC Commissioner and as the Chairman of the Commission. He has advised many international organizations and countries on antitrust and consumer protection issues. In 2011, he received the FTC’s Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Professor Timur Kuran, Duke University
Timur Kuran is currently a professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is also the director of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association and the World Economic Forum’s Arab World Council. Before joining Duke University, he taught at the University of Southern California. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the John Olin Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, and a visiting professor of economics at Stanford University. Professor Kuran published extensive scholarly work especially on social change, including the evolution of preferences and institutions, and the economic history and thought of the Middle East.
Professor David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Levi-Faur is currently an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and The Federmann School of Public Policy & Government, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He held research and teaching positions at the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, the Australian National University and the University of Manchester and visiting positions in the London School of Economics, the University of Amsterdam, University of Utrecht and University of California (Berkeley). He is a co-editor and co-founder of Regulation & Governance journal.
Professor Stefan Voigt, Hamburg University
Stefan Voigt is currently the director at the Institute of Law & Economics at Hamburg University. He is a
fellow with CESifo (Munich) and has been affiliated with the International Centre for Economic Research
(ICER) in Torino, Italy. Previous positions include chairs at the Universities of Marburg, Kassel, Ruhr-
University Bochum, a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and a research fellow
position with the Max-Planck-Institute for Research Into Economic Systems. He has also worked with
the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD but also with the European Round Table of
Industrialists (ERT). His research focuses on the economic effects of constitutions and the economic effects
of the judiciary. Voigt is one of the editors of the Review of Law & Economics and a member of various
boards including those of Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy.
