Aaron Edlin
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Professor and author Aaron S. Edlin is a noted expert in law and economics
Law and economics
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, specializing in antitrust
Antitrust
The United States antitrust law is a body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are intended to encourage competition in the marketplace. These competition laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both,...

. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton
Bill Clinton
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 White House
White House
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 as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers
Council of Economic Advisers
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 focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust. In 1999, he co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press
Berkeley Electronic Press
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, an electronic publishing
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 company that assists with scholarly communication.

Early years

Edlin graduated in 1988 Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University
Princeton University
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, Woodrow Wilson School Science and Policy Program with an A.B. degree in physics and economics. In 1993, he received a Ph.D. in Economics, and a J.D. from Stanford University
Stanford University
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.

Career

Edlin became a tenure
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d professor of law at University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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 in 1998 and the following year, he became tenured in the Department of Economics as well. Since 2005, he has held the Richard W. Jennings '39 Endowed Chair. He has also taught at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
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, Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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, and Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School
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.

He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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. From 2000 through 2003, he served on the American Law and Economics Association
American Law and Economics Association
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's board of directors.
Other active professional affiliations include American Economic Association
American Economic Association
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, Econometric Society
Econometric Society
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, and American Association of Law Teachers.

Along with Joseph Stiglitz and J. Bradford DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong
James Bradford DeLong commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of Economics and chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence...

, Edlin is the editor of The Economists' Voice journal; from 2006 to 2007, he was also president and CEO. He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Law, Economic, and Organization and International Review of Law and Economics; he is a retired associate editor of Journal of Industrial Economics. With Phillip Areeda and Louis Kaplow, Edlin co-authored Antitrust analysis: Problems, text, cases, one of the leading American casebook
Casebook
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s on antitrust. His most recent book, The economists' voice: Top economists take on today's problems (2008), is a series of essays on the application of economics to public policy issues. Edlin has written numerous articles and contributed to several books.

Edlin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
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.

Partial bibliography

  • Edlin, A. S., Stiglitz, J. E., & De Long, J. B. (2008). The economists' voice: Top economists take on today's problems. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14364-6
  • Areeda, Phillip; Kaplow, Louis; Edlin, Aaaron S. (2004). Antitrust analysis: Problems, text, cases. New York: Aspen. ISBN 978-0-7355-2795-9

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