Daniel Markovits

Daniel Markovits is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and founding director of Yale’s Center for the Study of Private Law. His work focuses on the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He earned a B.A. in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Yale University; an M.Sc. in econometrics and mathematical economics from the London School of Economics; and B.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He later received his J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi.

Markovits is the author of A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age, Contract Law and Legal Methods, and The Meritocracy Trap, which examines the effects of meritocracy on inequality and social life. He also coauthored Contracts: Law, Theory, and Practice with Gabriel Rauterberg.