Daniel Rubinfeld

Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, Professor of Economics

Fields: Law and Economics, Antitrust policy, Public Economics

Research interests: Federalism, economics of litigation, antitrust; political economy of federalism, state and local public economics, economics of the legal process

Daniel Rubinfeld is Professor of Economics and Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law. He has held joint appointments in the Economics Department and at Boalt School of Law since he joined Berkeley's faculty in 1983 as a professor. He also is president of the American Law and Economics Association. Professor Rubinfeld was chair of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) program from 1987 to 1990 and was the associate dean and chair of the JSP program from 1998 to 2000. He has also served as deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as in various capacities with the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the National Academy of Sciences, the Urban Institute, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

From 1992 to 1993 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and in 1994 he received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at New York University School of Law on a number of occasions, most recently in 2005. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. Professor Rubinfeld taught economics and law at the University of Michigan for 11 years prior to coming to Berkeley. He received his PhD in economics at MIT in 1972.