Professors Chandrasekher, Sarkar present at annual law, economics meeting at NYU Law

Professors Andrea Cann Chandrasekher and Shayak Sarkar presented papers at the annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association on May 18 at New York University School of Law.

Chandrasekher presented “Empirically Investigating the Source the Repeat Player Effect,” which she co-authored with Professor David Horton. Sharkar presented “The Corporate Costs of Human Rights Litigation: Market Evidence from the Alien Tort Statute and Beyond”.

Professor Chandrasekher's educational background includes a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley. She has taught as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern School of Law and served as a fellow at Stanford Law School. Her research interests include criminal law, law and economics, quantitative methods, criminal justice public policy analysis, and policing.

Shayak Sarkar's scholarship addresses the structure and legal regulation of inequality. His substantive interests lie in financial regulation, employment law, immigration, and taxation.