Einer R. Elhauge
Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law
Einer Elhauge is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Founding Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He served as Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to the Obama Campaign. He teaches a gamut of courses ranging from Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Legislation, and Health Care Law. 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, public law, corporate law, patents, the legal profession, and health law policy. His most recent books include: U.S. Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press 2018); Global. Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press 2018); Research Handbook on the Economics of Antitrust Law (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2013); Obamacare on Trial (2012), available at www.amazon.com; The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care: Causes and Solutions (Oxford University Press 2010); Statutory Default Rules (Harvard University Press 2008); ). For his website and publications, see http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/elhauge/.
Education
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 1986
- A.B. Harvard College, 1982
Academic Appointment and Employment History
- Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2005 - Present)
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Director, The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics (2005 - 2009)
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (1995 - Present)
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School (1995 - 1995)
Chicago, Illinois - Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (1994 - 1995)
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Visiting Olin Faculty Fellow, Yale Law School, 1993 (1993 - 1993)
New Haven, Connecticut - Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley (1988 - 1995)
Berkeley, California - Clerk for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., United States Supreme Court (1987 - 1988)
Washington, District of Columbia - Clerk for Judge William A. Norris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1986 - 1987)
Washington, District of Columbia - Clerk, U.S. Solicitor General's Office (1986 - 1986)
Washington, District of Columbia
Representative Publications
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Einer R. Elhauge, Contrived Threats v. Uncontrived Warnings: A General Solution to the Puzzles of Contractual Duress, Unconstitutional Conditions, and Blackmail, 83 U. Chi. L. Rev. 503 (2016). -
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Einer R. Elhauge, Horizontal Shareholding, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 1267 (2016). -
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Einer R. Elhauge, Statutory Default Rules: How to Interpret Unclear Legislation (Harvard Univ. Press 2008). - Duarte Brito, Einer Elhauge, Ricardo M. Ribeiro et al., Modeling the Objective Function of Managers in the Presence of Overlapping Shareholding, 87 Int'l J. Indus. Org. (2023).
- Einer Elhauge, United States Antitrust Law and Economics (4th ed. 2022).