Saul Levmore

Saul Levmore will be the Joseph F. Cunningham Visiting Professor in Commercial and Insurance Law at Columbia Law School in Spring 2026. He is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he was the Dean from 2001 to 2009, and where he won several teaching awards. He started his academic career at the University of Virginia and was a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, Michigan, and Northwestern. He has taught and written about torts, corporations, copyright, non-profit organizations, comparative law, public choice, corporate tax, commercial law, insurance, and contracts. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past trustee of the Law School Admissions Council and of the Skadden Foundation, and a President of the American Law and Economics Association. He was an undergraduate here at Columbia and then earned a Ph.D. and J.D. at Yale. Aside from law, Levmore has been an advisor on corporate governance issues and on development strategies. Although his work continues to be related to law and economics (especially public choice) across many fields, he has also written books on aging and on games and puzzles.