Michael Wachter

Michael Wachter (born 1943) is the William B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics.[1]

Professor

Michael Wachter
Born1943
New York City
OccupationLaw professor
TitleWilliam B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School

Biography

Wachter was born in New York City, and earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1964, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1967, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970.[1][2][3][4] From 1964 to 1965 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.[2]

Since 1970, Wachter has held full professor positions at the University of Pennsylvania in Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[5] He was Commissioner of the Minimum Wage Study Commission established by the US Congress from 1978 to 1981.[2] He was Interim Provost of the University of Pennsylvania from January 1998 to December 1998.[5] In July 2020, the Michael L. Wachter Distinguished Fellowship in Law and Policy was established in his name at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[6]

Wachter is the William B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law & Economics.[5]

Among the many articles Wachter has authored are "The Rise and Decline of Unions," 30 REG. 23 (2007), "Labor Unions: A Corporatist Institution in a Competitive World," 155 U. PA. L. REV. 581 (2007), and "Judging Unions' Future Using a Historical Perspective: The Public Policy Choice Between Competition and Unionization," 2 J. LAB. RES. 339 (2003).[5][7]

References
  1. Putterman, Louis; Kroszner, Randall S. (26 January 1996). The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521556286 – via Google Books.
  2. "C.V." (PDF).
  3. Ricketts, Martin (30 March 2008). The Economics of modern business enterprise. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781840649024 – via Google Books.
  4. Williamson, Oliver E.; Wachter, Michael L.; Harris, Jeffrey E. (28 April 1975). "Understanding the Employment Relation: The Analysis of Idiosyncratic Exchange". The Bell Journal of Economics. 6 (1): 250–278. doi:10.2307/3003224. JSTOR 3003224.
  5. "Penn Law Faculty: Michael L. Wachter, expert on Corporations, Corporate Finance, Labor Law, Law and Economics". www.law.upenn.edu.
  6. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/10236-former-delaware-supreme-court-chief-justice-leo-e. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. "Michael L. Wachter's research while affiliated with University of Pennsylvania and other places," ResearchGate.
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