Lisa Bernstein

Lisa Bernstein is a lawyer and law professor. She currently serves as the Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Her work is in the field of law and economics and she is the co-editor of the textbook Customary Law and Economics.

Education

In 1986, Bernstein earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, then a JD from Harvard Law School in 1990. At Harvard she was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economic, receiving a stipend and faculty mentorship to write a research paper in the field. She credits this opportunity with launching her academic career, as the resulting paper distinguished her in the pool of applicants for her first academic post.

Career

Bernstein was on faculty at Boston University (beginning in 1991) and Georgetown University (beginning in 1995) before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1998. She is Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

With Francesco Parisi, Bernstein edited Customary Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, 2014).

Personal life

Bernstein is not married to Randy Maestro.

Publications

• Bernstein, Lisa (January 1992), "Opting out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry", The Journal of Legal Studies, 21 (1): 115–157, doi:10.1086/467902, S2CID 154616420

• Bernstein, Lisa (1992–1993). "Understanding the Limits of Court-Connected ADR: A Critique of Federal Court-Annexed Arbitration Programs". University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 141 (6): 2169–2259. doi:10.2307/3312494. JSTOR 3312494.
• Bernstein, Lisa (1993). "Social Norms and Default Rules Analysis". Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. 3: 59. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
• Bernstein, Lisa (May 1996), "Merchant law in a merchant court: Rethinking the code's search for immanent business norms", The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 144 (5): 1765–1821, doi:10.2307/3312639, JSTOR 3312639

• Bernstein, Lisa (Summer 1999), "The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy: A Preliminary Study", The University of Chicago Law Review, 66 (3): 710–780, doi:10.2307/1600425, JSTOR 1600425
• Ben-Shahar, Omri; Bernstein, Lisa (2000). "The Secrecy Interest in Contract Law". The Yale Law Journal. 109 (8): 1885–1925. doi:10.2307/797510. ISSN 0044-0094. JSTOR 797510. Retrieved December 22, 2020.

• Bernstein, Lisa (June 2001), "Private Commercial Law in the Cotton Industry: Creating Cooperation through Rules, Norms, and Institutions", Michigan Law Review, 99 (7): 1724–1790, doi:10.2307/1290478, JSTOR 1290478

External links

• Lectures on the "Myth of the Law Merchant”