Edward G. Lewis Professor of Law and History
Daniel Klerman teaches Civil Procedure, Property, Concepts in American Law, Law & Economics, and English Legal History. In 2014, he received the Student Bar Association (SBA) Faculty Appreciation (“Outstanding Professor”) Award.
Professor Klerman clerked for Justice Stevens at the Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner at the 7th Circuit.
Klerman’s scholarship concentrates on Civil Procedure, English Legal History, and Law and Economics. His publications include “Forum Selling” (Southern California Law Review, 2016) (with Greg Reilly), “Settlement Around the World: Settlement Rates in the Largest Economies” (Journal of Legal Analysis, 2022) (with Yun-chien Chang), “Inferences from Litigated Cases,” (Journal of Legal Studies, 2014) (with Yoon-Ho Alex Lee) and “Jurisdictional Competition and the Evolution of the Common Law” (University of Chicago Law Review, 2007).
In 2024, Professor Klerman was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hebrew University, and he has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Caltech, and Tel Aviv University.
He has served as Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies and on the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association.
His legal history work has won prizes from the American Society for Legal History and the Selden Society.