{"id":27,"date":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-01-06T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:21:18","slug":"about-first-last","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/","title":{"rendered":"About First Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Steven Shavell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968, was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control from 1968 to 1970, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1973.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Harvard University from 1974 to 1980 and moved to the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1980.&nbsp;&nbsp;His focal interests are in the economic analysis of the basic subject areas of law\u2014contracts, torts, property, and criminal law\u2014and in the legal process.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shavell is the founder and director of the School\u2019s John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, a past director of the Law and Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-founder and past president of the American Law and Economics Association. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Ronald H. Coase Medal for research in law and economics.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including the treatise,&nbsp;<em>Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law<\/em>, Harvard University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/shavell-steven-1752.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" style=\"width:162px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Office: Hauser 508<br>Phone: (617) 495-3668<br>Fax: (617) 496-2256<br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:shavell@law.harvard.edu\">shavell@law.harvard.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/Shavell_CV.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/10\/Shavell_CV.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant: Matthew Hunt <br>617-384-0598<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Shavell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968, was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control from 1968 to 1970, and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1973.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Harvard University from 1974 to 1980 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About First Last<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/steven-shavell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}