Law & Economics
Portrait of Robert D. Cooter
Scholar portraitSource: UC Berkeley Law

Cooter

Robert D. Cooter

Law-and-economics scholar of legal institutions, development, and private law

law and economicslegal institutionsproperty and tort theory

Official Source Note

UC Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence and Social Policy faculty page identifies Cooter as a law-and-economics scholar and describes work connected to property, contract and business law, constitutional law and economics, and liability for externalities.

Cooter is included because his textbook with Thomas Ulen and broader institutional scholarship make law and economics teachable as a structured method rather than a collection of field-specific applications.

Source: UC Berkeley Law

Relevance to the Archive

Cooter helps readers move from isolated doctrines to institutional models of cooperation, incentives, bargaining, enforcement, and legal development.

Representative Contributions

  • Law and Economics (with Thomas Ulen)
  • The Strategic Constitution
  • Solomon's Knot (with Hans-Bernd Schafer)

Works Included Here