Law & Economics
Portrait of Russell B. Korobkin
Scholar portraitSource: UCLA School of Law

Korobkin

Russell B. Korobkin

Legal scholar of behavioral law and economics, negotiation, and contracts

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Official Source Note

UCLA School of Law identifies Korobkin as Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Graduate and Professional Education. His faculty page supports his role as a legal scholar of contracts, negotiation, and law-and-behavioral-science analysis.

Korobkin is included because his work with Thomas Ulen argues that law and economics should replace a strong rationality assumption with empirically grounded behavioral assumptions when those assumptions improve legal prediction and institutional design.

Source: UCLA School of Law

Relevance to the Archive

Korobkin helps readers see behavioral law and economics as a method for analyzing bargaining, default rules, negotiation failures, and legal design under realistic cognitive constraints.

Representative Contributions

  • Inertia and Preference in Contract Negotiation (1998)
  • Law and Behavioral Science (with Thomas Ulen, 2000)
  • Stem Cell Century (2007)

Works Included Here