THE GRUTER INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director, Office at Kansas University School of Law / Co - Chair, Research & Programming
- Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate
Andrew W. Torrance is the Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Graduate and International Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he teaches and conducts research in patent law, intellectual property, innovation, food and drug regulation, biotechnology law, biodiversity law, biolaw, and empirical, experimental, and big data approaches to the law. Specific research foci include open, user, and collaborative innovation, design, and legal issues surrounding genes, biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, synthetic biology, conservation biology, and de-extinction. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University, J.D. from Harvard Law School, and Bachelor of Science from Queen's University (Canada). In 2022, Torrance was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. In 2008/2009, Torrance served as a policy advisor on the Technology Media and Telecommunications ("TMT") Committee of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Torrance has given more than 100 scholarly presentations in over a dozen countries to numerous universities, as well as to organizations like World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Canadian Intellectual Property Office. He has also presented at Google, Microsoft Research, Genome Canada, and given a TEDx talk. His scholarship has appeared in such journals as the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Torrance and his research have been regularly featured in the media, including NPR, Forbes, the Seattle Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. For more information about Dr. Torrance and his research, click here.
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- Professor of Primate Behavior, Psychology Department
Frans B.M. de Waal is C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Psychology Department, Emory University, and Director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center. Professor de Waal has spent the major part of his academic career studying primates. His current research focuses on the social behavior and cognition of monkeys and apes with special emphasis on behavioral economics and cultural learning. He also works on the evolution of morality and prosocial tendencies, such as empathy. Representative publications are his many books, such as Chimpanzee Politics (1982), Primates & Philosophers (2006), and The Age of Empathy(2009). Technical articles include those on inequity aversion, consolation behavior, and reciprocity in food sharing.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Charles R. Taylor joined the Office of Financial Research in the U.S. Treasury as Executive Fellow in November 2015. There his research into financial stability has focused on capital policy for banks, the diversity of the financial system and financial innovation. Diversity is part of a larger theme in his research of applying evolutionary theory to the study of financial stability. Related topics of interest include: trends in regulatory complexity; whether the financial system is self-critical in the sense of having an internal tendency towards unstable states; culture in financial institutions and at supervisory agencies; and the complexity of financial institutions and in the relationships between them. For the previous four years he was Deputy Comptroller of the Currency for Capital and Regulatory Policy. In that capacity, he represented the Comptroller on the Basel Committee where he chaired the Supervision and Implementation Group. Before that, he was Director of the bipartisan Pew Financial Reform Project which advocated for financial reform in the run-up to the Dodd-Frank Act and, earlier in his career, he was Executive Director of the Group of Thirty where he co-wrote several papers on financial policy, including the path-breaking study "Derivatives: Practices and Principles". His career included stints in consulting and on Wall Street. He has written and spoken widely on public policy issues. He has degrees from Cambridge, Oxford and Wharton in mathematics, economics and business respectively. He is a fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and a member of the Risk Management Association.
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- Professor of Law & Director of the Law Lab
- Scientist, Technologist and Professor
Professor Daniel Katz is a scientist, technologist and professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law - to help create lawyers for today's biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
As director of the Law Lab at Chicago Kent University, he teaches Practice & Professionalism, E-Discovery, Legal Analytics, Blockchain + Cryptocurrency & Law, Introduction to Legal Technology & Innovation, Legal Project Management + Legal Process Improvement and Civil Procedure and spearheads new initiatives to teach law students how to leverage technology and entrepreneurship in their future legal careers. He joined Chicago-Kent in 2015 from Michigan State University College of Law, where he co-founded the ReInvent Law Laboratory, an innovative multidisciplinary center that focused on the intersection of entrepreneurship, informatics, programming and design thinking to better understand, analyze and design the law.Professor Katz received his Ph.D. in political science and public policy with a focus on complex adaptive systems from the University of Michigan. He graduated with a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School and simultaneously obtained a Master of Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. For more information about Professor Katz and his research, click here
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law
Dorothy J. Glancy is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law. A graduate of Wellesley College (B.A. in English and Intellectual History) and Harvard Law School (J.D.), Professor Glancy teaches courses in property, intellectual property, copyright law, trademark law, land use and administrative law. Before entering academia, Professor Glancy practiced law in Washington, D.C. and was counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights during the time of the Watergate investigations. She also served in the Office of General Counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture. Professor Glancy has been chair of the Section on Defamation and Privacy, as well as the Sections on Environmental Law and Property of the Association of American Law Schools. She was an Adviser to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California and a member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and Past-Chair of the Section's Ethics Committee. A life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Glancy was an adviser to the Restatement of Property: Servitudes. She currently serves on the Court Technology Advisory Committee to the State of California Judicial Council. For more than a decade, Professor Glancy has been an active participant in the work of the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. A specialist on the law of privacy and intelligent transportation systems, she directed a study of the impact of intelligent transportation systems on privacy under a grant from the Federal Highway Administration and published a series of articles and research reports on the subject. She has been a consultant with regard to privacy issues related to the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) project under development by the US Department of Transportation, vehicle manufacturers and state transportation authorities. Her publications cover a wide range of topics, including the judicial work of Justice William O. Douglas, various aspects of property law, as well as historic preservation, co-ownership and intellectual property.
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- Executive Director of the Consortium
- Professor of Law
Douglas Yarn is Executive Director of the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law where he teaches conflict resolution and ethics. An experienced litigator, mediator, facilitator, and arbitrator, Professor Yarn served as in- house attorney, mediator, and trainer for the American Arbitration Association from 1987- 1994. He has trained mediators and arbitrators nationwide and designed conflict management systems for private and public entities, domestic and international. He is a Salzburg Fellow specializing in international environmental dispute resolution and has consulted for the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. His publications include, The Dictionary of Conflict Resolution (Jossey- Bass 1999), Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (3rd ed. Thomson/West 2006), Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in North Carolina (Harrison 1998), and numerous book chapters and articles ranging from the social utility of dueling codes and the history of English arbitrement to apology and ADR ethics. Professor Yarn's current research interests focus primarily on the behavioral biology of conflict and reconciliation incorporating ethology, ethnography, game theory, network tools, and complex adaptive systems theory. His degrees are from Duke University, University of Georgia, and Cambridge University, England.
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- Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Debra Lieberman is Professor and has served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs and Research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. Dr. Lieberman earned a BS in Biochemistry from SUNY Binghamton and a PhD in Psychology at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UCSB. Her research aims to understand how evolution has shaped the social mind and includes work on kinship, cooperation, sexuality, groups, morality, and emotions. She has published in several top tier journals including Nature, PNAS, Proceedings B, JPSP, and Psych Science. She is co-author of Objection: Disgust, Morality and the Law published by Oxford University Press in 2018 and she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.
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- Consultant
- Darwin Professor of Anthropology
- Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Lionel Tiger is Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University . Professor Tiger has served as a consultant on terrorism to the Science Advisory Board to the Secretary of the Air Force, and on adapting insights about "human nature" to the program of the Director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His current areas of research include the impact of ambient social science notions of human sexuality and sex roles on social policy and political theory, role of biogenic factors in the formation of macrosocial patterns in industrial societies, the impact of the primordial on modern warfare, and shifts in relative power (productive and reproductive) among males and females in industrial societies. Representative publications: The Apes of New York, Cybereditions, New Zealand, 2003; The Decline of Males, St. Martin's Press, 2000; Men in Groups (Editions 1, 2 and 3). New York. Random House. 1969, 1987, 2004; The Imperial Animal with Robin Fox (Editions 1, 2, and 3). New York. Holt Rinehart. 1971, 1977 (Editions 1 and 2). New York. Transaction. 1997 (Edition 3); (with Joseph Shepher) Women in the Kibbutz. New York . Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. 1975; Optimism: The Biology of Hope. Simon and Shuster, New York; Secker a Warburg London, 1979; reissued with new introduction, Kodansha, New York, 1995, new Forward by LT, Introduction by Frederick Turner; The Manufacture of Evil: Ethics, Evolution, and the Industrial System. New York. Harper and Row. 1987. With Michael T. McGuire, Dr. Tiger is co-author of the book GOD'S BRAIN, from Prometheus Publishers.
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- Director of Behavioral Management, Research Animal Resources
Dr. Lydia Hopper is the Director of Behavioral Management, Research Animal Resources and an Associate Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology at Johns Hopkins University. Hopper's research explores the ways in which an individual's behavior and decision-making is influenced by their social environment. Dr. Hopper studies how different species, including humans, innovate and learn from others. Taking a comparative research approach allows her to assess both within- and between-species differences in order to examine the underlying mechanisms and functions of observed behaviors. Dr. Hopper applies her understanding of behavior and cognition to enhance captive animal care and welfare, and to help improve research model validity. Throughout her career, Dr. Hopper has studied animal cognition and welfare in a variety of settings, including research facilities, zoos, and sanctuaries. For her graduate and postdoctoral training, Dr. Hopper was based at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center's Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, where she studied chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, and squirrel monkeys. The findings of this work offered new insights into primate social learning, cooperation, and responses to inequity. To learn more about Dr. Hopper and her research, click here
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Private Investor in New York City
Gerry Ohrstrom is a private investor in New York City and former chairman of the Ohrstrom Foundation, which was founded by his grandfather in 1953. In recent years, Ohrstrom has spent much of his time in the nonprofit sector. Prior to that, he worked in manufacturing, investment banking, and private equity. He is or has been a director of various corporations and nonprofit organizations, including the Reason Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute, the Property and Environment Research Center, Africa Fighting Malaria, the International Policy Network, the Gruter Institute, the Intelligence Squared debate series, the Booker T. Washington Learning Center, the Museum of the Rockies, and the Yellowstone Park Foundation. He has been co-chairman of the President's Council at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and is a member of the New York Academy of Science.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Scientist
- Director, New York Office / Co - Chair, Research & Programming
Isabel Behncke is a behavioral and evolutionary scientist who works on animal behavior and their interactions with nature. She is originally from Chile and enjoys the active iteration between fieldwork and theory. Dr. Behncke has an MSc from the University College London in Conservation Biology, MPhil from Cambridge University in Human Evolution, and a Ph.D. from Oxford University in Evolutionary Anthropology.
After walking 3000+ km in the jungles of Congo observing the social behavior of bonobo apes-Pan paniscus, together with chimpanzees our closest living relatives-, for her PhD field research, Dr. Behncke now applies an evolutionary lens to applied questions on human social behavior: Why do we go to festivals? Why does trust require risk taking? Why would adult primates play - what role does this expensive behavior have in social bonds, creativity, and health? Why is it that the more digital technologies we get, the more understanding of evolution we need? Isabel also works in biodiversity conservation in Chile, and serves as a member of the science, technology, knowledge and innovation council for the Chilean President.
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- Chairman of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Jeffrey Stake is the Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington. He earned his B.A. In 1975 from the University of Illinois and his J.D. In 1981 from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for the Honorable Oscar H. Davis, U.S. Court of Claims, Washington, D.C. during 1981-82 and was an Associate at Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., during 1982-85. Professor Stake has taught Property, Wills and Trusts, and Land-Use Controls at Indiana University since 1985. He was Indiana University Maurer School of Law's first teacher to receive both the Leon Wallace Teaching Award and the IU Trustees Teaching Award. He was the past President and founding Vice-President of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law. Professor Stake's interdisciplinary approach brings principles of economics, psychology, and evolution to bear on legal issues ranging from alimony and adverse possession to the Rule against Perpetuities. In addition, he has applied evolution to the First Amendment's protection of free speech and empirical economic analysis to careers of IU law graduates and to U.S. News and World Report's rankings of law schools. A number of his papers are available for free on SSRN. He has published in leading legal periodicals and has presented papers at scholarly conferences throughout the United States and Europe, and has lectured at Paris II and at the Max Planck Institute in Jena Germany.
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- Co - Founder of the New Center for an Informed Public
- Co - Founder, Center for an Informed Public
Jevin West is the co-founder of the new Center for an Informed Public at UW aimed at resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society and strengthening democratic discourse. His research and teaching focus on the impact of data and technology on science and society, with a focus on slowing the spread of misinformation. He is the co-author of the new book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, which helps non-experts question numbers, data, and statistics without an advanced degree in data science. He received his BS and MS in Biology from Utah State University, and his PhD in Biology from University of Washington. He did his Postdoc research in physics at Umea University.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Johnson Louis Professor of Management, Professor of Economics
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University
Kevin McCabe is professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University, and he serves as director of the Behavioral and Neuroeconomics Laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. Professor McCabe graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in economics, and the University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in economics. His current service includes: distinguished research fellow at the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, and research fellow at the Gruter Institute for the study of Biology and the Law. Past service includes section editor of the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan, and consultant to USAID on training in economics and management at the Warsaw School 0f Economics in Poland. Professor McCabe's research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation through his current grants NSF- SES: 0129744, "Brain Function and Economic Decision Making," and NSF-(Number Pending), "Enhancing Human Economic Performance." His research interests are in the experimental study of economic cognition at the level of the embodied brain, the mind, the organization, the institution, and the market.
In 1981, Margaret Gruter founded the Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research as a forum for scholars and practitioners to explore scientific findings about the human mind and human nature and to consider how this information relates to a wide range of legal and social issues. Frustrated by the borders between academic disciplines, Margaret sought out intellectuals interested in investigating new ideas across disciplines.
From a very young age until her death in 2003, Margaret Gruter was motivated by a deep desire to understand the meaning of justice. A native of Germany, she was a liberal arts student steeped in the ethics and philosophies a classical education provided in the 1930s when Hitler's 12-year regime of terror took hold and destroyed lives. During these extremely difficult times, she was classified as "unreliable" and suffered persecution by the Nazis. Witnessing the atrocities of Hitler's regime and at the same time knowing first hand many extraordinary people risking their lives to save others, she wondered: how could humans, made up of the same apparent biological composite, be in some cases so evil and in some cases so good? She felt compelled to examine the underlying roots of fairness, justice, and ethics.
Shortly after World War II broke out, she began law school at the University of Heidelberg, where, after many tumultuous years, she received her doctor of jurisprudence in 1944.
After working as a translator for the American military in Heidelberg during the early post war years, she immigrated to the United States in 1951 with her husband, who worked as a doctor in rural Ohio. Overseeing a medical clinic and observing patients with neurological issues, she became increasingly interested in biology and human behavior.
In 1969, Margaret and her family moved to California, where she resumed her study of law in her early 50s, this time at Stanford University Law School. Her interest in biology led her to contacts in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. In the process, she met Jane Goodall, whose studies of chimpanzees became instrumental in Margaret's research. In 1972, she met renowned ethologist Konrad Lorenz, who encouraged her attempts to make connections between the study of law and behavioral biology.
In founding the Institute, Margaret was guided by the realization that law, at its most basic level, is an attempt to regulate human behavior. And if seeking to channel human behavior, it makes sense to understand both the biology and environmental influences on human behavior (nature and nurture). Yet in her experience, very little attention had been paid in the legal academy to understanding the biology underlying human behavior - to understanding what law is "up against." She further understood that information is power and thus even where a behavior has robust biological underpinnings, but is an undesirable behavior, more information is useful to improving law and society.
A woman of exceptional drive, supreme intellect and accomplished business acumen, she was uniquely able to pioneer the bridging of the gap between law and the behavioral sciences. Her vision has continued over four decades, as the Gruter Institute continues to catalyze the exchange of ideas between disciplines as a means of solving today's challenges.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Economics, Accounting, Finance
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- Director
- Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors of the Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research
For over 20 years, Monika Cheney has served as Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors of the Gruter Institute for Law & Behavioral Research. Monika leads strategy, research, and fundraising initiatives at the intersection of law, innovation, economics and human behavior. She is excited about the Institute's contributions to topics such as the effects of human isolation in the digital age, understanding innovation, trust and cooperation in markets, AI and human behavior, and human behavior and leadership. Before joining the Gruter Institute, Monika practiced law for six years, most recently in the intellectual property and technology transactions group at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, Rosati, in Palo Alto.
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- Director / Vermont Law School
- Director, Vermont Office / Co - Chair, Research & Programming
- Professor of Law
- Research Professor of Law at Vermont Law
Oliver Goodenough is a research professor of law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth' Thayer School of Engineering, Affiliated Faculty at Stanford's CodeX Center for Legal Informatics and a Research Fellow at the Gruter Institute. His research focus on the intersection of law, economics, finance, media, technology, neuroscience and behavioral biology make him an authority in several emerging areas of law. He is expert in the impact of digital technology on law, with a particular emphasis on using the computational approaches to create computable contracts and digital business organizations and to improve the support provided by law for innovation and entrepreneurship generally.
He has previously been a Faculty Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he was co-director of the Law Lab project, an IPA Researcher and Visiting Fellow at the US Office of Financial Research, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge, a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Visiting Professor at the Neurological Department of the Charite Medical School of Humboldt University in Berlin. Professor Goodenough has also served as co-director of the Education and Outreach Program, overseen by the Gruter Institute, of the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project. For more information about Professor Goodenough and his research, click here.
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- Professor of Law & Professor of Biological Sciences
Owen D. Jones holds a joint appointment as Professor of Law & Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University. He is a leading scholar on issues at the intersection of law and behavioral biology. Published in scientific as well as legal venues, he is the author of several dozen articles and book chapters. His current empirical research uses brain-imaging (fMRI), primatology and behavioral economics to learn more about how the brain's varied operations affect behaviors relevant to law. Most recently, he co-discovered with colleagues at Vanderbilt the brain activity underlying decisions of whether to punish someone and, if so, how much. Professor Jones holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences. He is director and former president of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law (S.E.A.L.), an international interdisciplinary scholarly organization, whose members focus on issues at the intersection of law, biology and behavior. Before joining the legal academy, Professor Jones clerked for Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and practiced law with the D.C. law firm Covington & Burling. He came to Vanderbilt from Arizona State University, where he was Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Professor of Law, Professor of Biology and Faculty Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School. In 2004, the Gruter Institute awarded Jones the Bene Merenti Award for Outstanding Achievements in Law and Behavioral Research. In 2007, Professor Jones was appointed co-director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Decision Making, which is exploring the relevance of neuroscience to criminal law.
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- Event Manager
- Treasurer
- Founder and CEO of Clear Path Advising LLC
Pamela Gordon is the founder and CEO of Clear Path Advising LLC which provides fractional CFO and Finance Management services to individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. She has a BA in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley and was a systems and support engineer for several tech companies in the first half of her career.
Pam is currently serving as Treasurer and Event Manager for The Gruter Institute.
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- Law and Associate Dean of Graduate and International Law
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- Director, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
- Founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
Paul J. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics, Psychology and Business at Claremont Graduate University. Zak also serves as Professor of Neurology at Loma Linda University Medical Center, and is a Senior Researcher at UCLA. He has degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University, a Ph.D. in economics from University of Pennsylvania, and post-doctoral training in neuroimaging from Harvard. Professor Zak is credited with the first published use of the term "neuroeconomics" and has been a vanguard in this new discipline. He organized and administers the first doctoral program in neuroeconomics in the world at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Zak is a recognized expert in oxytocin. His lab discovered in 2004 that oxytocin allows us to determine who to trust. This knowledge is being used to understand the basis for modern civilizations and modern economies, improve negotiations, and treat patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders.
Rebecca Purdom is an environmental lawyer and legal educator who studies how people make sense of place and learning when confronted with changing conditions, contexts and technology. She has a J.D. and a masters in policy from Vermont Law School and an undergraduate degree in evolutionary biology. She has worked with communities in Brazil, East Africa, and across the US to develop innovative educational systems. In the process, she has examined how learners and communities respond to evolving pressures and how legal systems respond when innovative zeal or extraordinary circumstances exceed existing legal structures. She has served as a dean for graduate and innovative legal education programs at Vermont Law School and Emory University and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of New Hampshire, and she has been visiting and consulting faculty in programs ranging from biochemistry at Stanford Medical School to International Law and Business at University de Metodista de Piracicaba in Brazil.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
Robert Cooter is a pioneer in the field of law and economics. He began teaching in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1975 and joined the Boalt faculty in 1980. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and a recipient of various awards and fellowships, including Guggenheim, the Jack N. Pritzker Visiting Research Professorship at Northwestern Law School, and, most recently, the Max Planck Research Prize. He was an Olin visiting professor at the University of Virginia Law School and lectured at the University of Cologne in 1989. He is co editor of the Review of Law and Economics. He is one of the founders of the American Law and Economics Association and served from 1994 to 1995 as its president. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also one of the founders of the Latin American Law and Economics Association, and also the Comparative Law and Economics Forum. Cooter has published a wide variety of articles on private law, constitutional law and economics, and law and economic development. Recent publications include the third edition of the leading textbook Law and Economics (with Ulen, 1999), also translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. He has also authored "Commodifying Liability" in The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (1999), "Law from Order: Economic Development and the Jurisprudence of Social Norms" in A Not-so-Dismal Science: A Broader, Brighter Approach to Economies and Societies (1999), "Punitive Damages" in Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (1999), and "Does Risk to Oneself Increase the Care Owed to Others? Law and Economics in Conflict" in the Journal of Legal Studies (with Porat, 2000).
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Johnson Louis Professor of Management, Professor of Economics
Robert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the co-director of the Paduano Seminar in Law, Ethics, and Markets at NYU's Stern School. His "Economic View" column appears monthly in The New York Times. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1966, then taught math and science for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Nepal. He received his M.A. in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1972, also from U.C. Berkeley. During leaves of absence from Cornell, he was chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board from 1978 to 1980, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1992-93, and the Professor of American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 2000-2001. Professor Frank's books, which include Choosing the Right Pond, Passions Within Reason, Microeconomics and Behavior, Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke), Luxury Fever, [and] What Price the Moral High Ground?, Falling Behind, The Economic Naturalist, and The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide, have been translated into 18 languages. The Winner-Take-All Society, co-authored with Philip Cook, received a Critic's Choice Award, was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and was included in Business Week's list of the ten best books of 1995. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. He was awarded the Johnson School's Stephen Russell Distinguished teaching award in 2004 and its Apple Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Biology
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- Acting Chair
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Acting Chair, Department of Psychology
Dr. Sarah Brosnan is the Acting Chair of the department of psychology at Georgia State University. She is also a Distinguished University Professor in the departments of philosophy and the Neuroscience Institute, Co-Director of the Language Research Center, and Director of the 2CI in Primate Social Cognition, Evolution and Behavior Fellows program. In her research she utilizes a comparative approach to study the function of and mechanisms underlying decision-making. Through the study of a variety of species, particularly non-human primates,she explores the behavioral, cognitive and hormonal mechanisms underlying decision-making and how these decisions are influenced by ecology and the social environment.Dr. Brosnan is also a member of the Brains & Behavior program and faculty in the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. She directs the Comparative Economics and Behavioral Sciences Laboratory (CEBUS Lab) and conducts behavioral and cognitive research with nonhuman primates at both the Language Research Center of Georgia State University and the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research of the UT/MD Anderson Cancer Center. She also collaborates with colleagues at Zoo Atlanta, The Wolf Science Center in Ernstbrunn, Austria, the Economic Science Institute, Florida Tech, and numerous other universities around the world. For more information about Dr. Brosnan and her research, click here.
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- Founder of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center
- Founder, George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center
- Professor
Susan Dudley is founder of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
She is a past president of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, a senior fellow with the Administrative Conference of the United States, chair of the Federalist Society's Regulatory Transparency Project Regulatory Process Working Group, and on NormAI's advisory board.
Professor Dudley served as the Presidentially-appointed Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, directed the Regulatory Studies Program at the Mercatus Center, taught courses on regulation at the George Mason University School of Law, served as a staff economist at OIRA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and as a consultant to government and private clients at Economists Incorporated. She holds a Master of Science degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, Regulation: A Primer, with Jerry Brito, is available on Amazon.com.
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- Member of the Advisory Board