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Joint appointment in Economics and Law
What
excites you most about joining the new law school faculty?
We have a unique opportunity to develop a program that will bring law
students and faculty to a university eager to participate in a multidisciplinary
scholarship that includes legal issues and methodology. As a founding
faculty of the law school, I am particularly excited about contributing
to continued interactions across campus.
Describe your scholarship,
or a favorite pro bono or service project.
My research is in innovation policy, with an emphasis on energy. I
use economic and political models to analyze how political and economic
institutions affect technological innovation. My work overlaps with
issues in administrative law and intellectual property, as well as
formal modeling of judicial and political institutions. I also try
to bring these models to bear on policy debates, most recently participating
in the National Research Council’s Panel on Energy Efficiency, part
of the NRC Project on America’s Energy Future.
What are you the most
excited about doing in the first years of the law school?
Participating in recruiting new faculty and students, and working
on establishing joint programs for students in Law and Social Sciences.
- California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., social sciences, 1979
- University of California, Berkeley, mathematics, 1974
- University of California, Irvine, School of Social Sciences, associate dean for research and graduate studies, 2006-present
- University of California, Irvine, Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, 1988-present
- University of California, Irvine, Department of Economics, 1987-present; chair, 1998-2001
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Olin Visiting Professor in Law and Economics, 2001-05
- Resources for the Future, Gilbert White Visiting Fellow, 2003-04
- USC Gould School of Law/California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, visiting associate professor, 1993
- University of Southern California, visiting professor of law and economics, 1990
- University of Washington, Department of Economics, visiting assistant professor, 1986-87
- Brookings Institution, research associate, economic studies, 1983-85
- California Institute of Technology,
- Environmental Quality Laboratory, senior economist, 1982-83
- RAND Corporation, economics associate, 1980-82
- Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, assistant professor of public policy, 1978-80
- Economics of innovation, government regulation, government policy for research and innovation, positive political theory and law, social choice, political economy
- Professor Cohen co-authored The Technology Pork Barrel (Brookings Institution, 1991). She has published extensively in such journals as the Georgetown Law Review, Southern California Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, Journal of Economic Theory, American Economic Review, Public Policy and Political Behavior.
- Resources for the Future, Gilbert White Fellow, 2003-2004
- Industrie Canada, Ottawa, distinguished economist lecture, 2003
- California Council for Science and Technology, fellow, 1998
- Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, 1993, 1998
- Brookings Institution, research fellow, 1977