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Alan Schwartz

Sterling Professor of Law
LL.B., Yale Law School, 1964
B.A., Bates College, 1961

Alan Schwartz is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1987. His scholarly interests include

commercial law, corporate finance, contracts, products liability, consumer protection, law and economics, and bankruptcy.

He will teach Contract in Contexts at the Law School in January 2005.

After working as an associate for Rosenman, Colin, Kaye, Petschek, Freund & Emil (1964-69), Schwartz held a number of teaching posts at Indiana University (1969-76), USC Law Center (1976-87), and the California Institute of Technology (1981-87).

He co-authored

Commercial Law: Principles and Policies

and

Sales Law and the Contracting Process

with U.Va. law professor Robert Scott in 1982.

Publications

Books:

Commercial Law: Principles and Policies (with R. Scott) (1982; 2nd ed. 1991).

Sales Law and the Contracting Process (with R. Scott) (1982; 2nd ed. 1991).

Fundamentals of Contract Law (with R. Craswell) (1994).

Payment Systems and Credit Instruments (with C. Gillette and R. Scott) (1996).

Selected Articles:

"The Law and Economics of Costly Contracting" (with J. Watson), 20 J.L. Econ. & Org. 2 (2004).

"Contract Theory and the Limits of Contract Law" (with R. Scott), 113 Yale J. 541 (2003).

"Optimal Penalties in Contracts" (with A. Edlin), 78 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 101 (2002).