Daniel Klerman

Associate Dean and Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Law and History

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dklerman@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-7973
Fax: (213) 740-5502
Room: 460
Personal Website: http://www.klerman.com

Daniel M. Klerman’s scholarship concentrates on English legal history and law and economics. He teaches Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, English Legal History, Law and Economics, and Law, Language and Values. He also is a regular visitor at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches Law and Economics and Legal History.

Professor Klerman’s recent publications include “Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law” (University of Chicago Law Review, 2007) and “The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century England” (with Paul Mahoney; American Law and Economics Review, 2005). In 2004, he was awarded the Sutherland Prize from the American Society for Legal History for best article on English legal history. In 2001, he received the David Yale Prize from the Selden Society for distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales.

Professor Klerman received his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. He clerked for The Honorable Richard A. Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and The Honorable John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. In addition to teaching at USC Law, he also has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago Law School, Stanford Law School, the California Institute of Technology, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

Professor Klerman is Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association.

Works in Progress

• Legal Fictions as Strategic Instruments. - (PDF)
• Legal Origin and Economic Growth. - (PDF)
• Corruption and Private Law Enforcement: Theory and History - (SSRN)

Articles and Book Chapters

• Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law, 74 University of Chicago Law Review 1179 (2007). - (Hein)
• Legal Origin?, 35 Journal of Comparative Economics 278-293 (2007) (with Paul Mahoney). - (www)
• Legal Infrastructure, Judicial Independence, and Economic Development, 19 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 427-34 (2007). - (Hein)
• Trademark Dilution, Search Costs, and Naked Licensing, 74 Fordham Law Review 1759-73 (2006) - (Hein)
• The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century England, 7 American Law & Economics Review 1-27 (2005) (with Paul Mahoney). - (www)
• Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?, 77 Southern California Law Review 123-50 (2003). - (Hein)
• Statistical and Economic Approaches to Legal History, 2002 University of Illinois Law Review 1167. - (Hein)
• Women Prosecutors in Thirteenth-Century England, 14 Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 271 (2002). - (Hein)
• Optimal Law Enforcement with a Rent-Seeking Government, 4 American Law and Economics Review 116 (2002) (with Nuno Garoupa). - (www)
• Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth Century England, 19 Law and History Review 1 (2001). - (Hein)
• Non-Promotion and Judicial Independence, 72 Southern California Law Review 455 (1999). - (Hein)
• Settling Multidefendant Lawsuits: The Advantage of Conditional Setoff Rules, 25 Journal of Legal Studies 445 (1996). - (Hein)
• An Economic Analysis of Mary Carter Settlement Agreements, 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2215 (1995) (with Lisa Bernstein). - (Hein)

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