Officers

Lee Anne Fennell, President

Max Pam Professor of Law
at the University of Chicago Law School

Lee Anne Fennell is the Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she has taught since 2007. She previously served as a Bigelow Fellow at Chicago, taught on the faculties of the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law, and held visiting positions at Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, and the University of Virginia School of Law. Before teaching law, she practiced at Pettit & Martin, the State and Local Legal Center, and the Virginia School Boards Association.

Her teaching and research interests include property, torts, land use, housing, social welfare law, state and local government law, and public finance. She is the author of The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines (Yale University Press 2009) and Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2019), as well as many articles and essays.

Dhammika Dharmapala, Vice President

Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley

Dhammika Dharmapala is a Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He joined Berkeley Law in 2023 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law. He serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, a fellow of the CESifo Research Network, a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He has also served as Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. He has held postdoctoral or visiting positions at various institutions, including Harvard, Michigan, Georgetown, Oxford, the Australian National University, and the International Monetary Fund. His research spans the fields of taxation and public finance, the economic analysis of law, and corporate finance and governance, and has been published in leading journals in law, economics, and finance.

Albert H. Choi, Secretary Treasirer

Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Albert H. Choi is the Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He joined the law faculty at the University of Michigan in 2019, after teaching at the University of Virginia School of Law from 2005 to 2019 and at the University of Virginia Economics Department from 2001 to 2005. He currently serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization and is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He served as Co-Editor of the American Law and Economics Review from 2017 to 2023 and as an associate editor of the American Law and Economics Review and the International Review of Law and Economics. He has held visiting positions at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His research and teaching interests include contracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.