Einer Elhauge

Einer Elhauge is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He teaches a gamut of courses ranging from Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Health Care Law, and Statutory Interpretation. Before coming to Harvard, he was a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Norris on the 9th Circuit and Justice Brennan on the Supreme Court. He received both his A.B. and his J.D. from Harvard, graduating first in his law school class.

He is an author of numerous pieces on range of topics even broader than he teaches, including antitrust monopolization and tying doctrine, antitrust petitioning and state action immunity, statutory interpretation, legislative term limits, the 2000 Presidential election, the implications of interest group theory for judicial review, sacrificing corporate profits in the public interest, corporate sale of control doctrine, whether lawyers improve the legal system, medical technology assessment, and how to devise a morally just and cost effective medical system. His most recent publication is “Global Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press 2007)” and “Global Competition Law and Economics” (Hart Publishing 2007). Currently he is working on a book entitled “Statutory Default Rules” for Harvard University Press, books on Contract Theory and Health Law Policy and articles on Re-engineering Human Biology and other topics. For his website and publications, see http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/elhauge/