Saul Levmore

Saul Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. From 2001 to 2009 he was the Dean of the Law School. His research focuses on the behavioral effects of legal rules. He has written on such things as the law's ability to control strategic delay by litigants, the variety and uniformity found in the law of different cultures, the evolution of voting and parlimentary rules in meeting halls, legislatures, and public elections, and the social norm associated with anonymous communications. Levmore's current work is on plurality and supermajority voting, and on the ways in which jurors' and judges' viewpoints might be aggregated. He received an honorary doctorate from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is a past president of the American Law Deans Association and a past trustee of the Law School Admissions Council and of the Skadden Foundation. Away from law, he has been an advisor on corporate governance issues and on development strategies and is the author of a book on games and puzzles.