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Albert Choi Professor of Law J.D., Yale Law School, 2001 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001 B.A., Pomona College, 1994 Albert Choi joined the Law School as an Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics in 2005, after teaching as an Assistant Professor in the University's Department of Economics. His research and teaching interests include law and economics, contract theory, corporate law, corporate finance, and organization. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in May 2001 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September of that same year. While at Yale, he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics in 2000-01 and earned John M. Olin Research Fellowships in the summers of 2000 and 2001. At MIT, he was a National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellow.

"A Critique of the Odious Debt Doctrine” (with Eric Posner), 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 33 (2007).

“Successor Liability and Asymmetric Information,” 9 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 408 (2007).

"Should Plaintiffs Win What Defendants Lose? Litigation Stakes, Litigation Effort, and the Benefits of Decoupling," (with Chris Sanchirico), 33 J. Legal Stud. 323 (2004).

"Golden Parachute as a Compensation Shifting Mechanism," 20 J. L. Econ. & Org. 170 (2004).

"Allocating Settlement Authority under a Contingent Fee Arrangement," 23 J. Legal Stud. 585 (2003).
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