Date: September 17, 2015
Location: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
Thursday, September 17, 2015
ANUP MALANI | University of Chicago School of Law
Building Capacity in India: The International Innovation Corps Model
Time: 4:30pm (followed by a reception in the Crowder Courtyard)
Location: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (310)
Professor Malani is the Lee & Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago School of Law and Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a university scholar at Resources for the Future in Washington, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston, a senior Fellow at the Schaeffer Center at University of Southern California, an editor at the Journal of Law and Economics, and a member of the board of the University of Chicago Press. Malani has a PhD in economics and a JD, both from University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Malani conducts research in law and economics and health economics. His law and economics research focuses on models of judicial behavior measuring the welfare impact of laws. His health economics research focuses on the value of medical innovation and insurance, control of infectious diseases, and placebo effects. He is the principal investigator on the Indian Health Insurance Experiment, a 12,000 household study of health insurance in Karnataka, India. He is also the co-founder of the International Innovation Corps, a social service program that sends teams of University of Chicago and Indian university graduates to work on innovative development projects with government officials in India. Malani’s research has been published in journals from a number of different fields, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Political Economy, the Harvard Law Review, the Archives of Internal Medicine, and Theoretical Population Biology. Malani teaches courses in commercial law and health law in the Law School, and a PhD law and economics course in the Economics Department. His newest book, The Future of Healthcare Reform in the United States, is due out in October 2015 (edited with Michael H. Schill).
This talk is co-sponsored by the Washington University India Initiative, Brown School Institute for Public Health, Brown School Center for Social Development, and the School of Law Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series, Graduate & International Programs, and Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute.