Michael Pressman

Michael Pressman is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. His scholarship bridges law, philosophy, and their intersection. His legal scholarship to date has focused primarily on torts, contracts, and private law remedies. Within philosophy, his research has focused on questions about value and how to quantify and aggregate it. And his scholarship has increasingly come to be concerned with areas in which philosophical work in value theory can and should inform the values identified by private law remedies. In particular, one focus has been on how tort law should value lost life-years. Another recent focus has been on examining questions pertaining to the loss-of-chance doctrine in tort damages.