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Gillian Hadfield

Expert on civil litigation reform, the legal profession and costs, compensation for terrorism victims, and feminist issues

Co-director, USC Center in Law, Economics and Organization
Professor, USC Gould School of Law

Contact at: (213) 821-6793 or ghadfield@law.usc.edu


Expertise:
  • legal fees and costs
  • legal profession
  • tort reform
  • alternative dispute resolution
  • September 11 Victim's Compensation Fund
  • 1993 World Trade Center bombing litigation
  • contracting (commercial, and intellectual property)
  • franchising
  • feminist legal issues
  • transition economies
  • reform in newly emerging market democracies
  • design of legal institutions in market demoncracies
Additional Information:
  • Co-author of The Second Wave of Law and Economics (1999)
  • Appointed member, board of editors, Journal of Law and Social Inquiry
  • Member, International Society for New Institutional Economics
  • On contract with the World Bank to assist Slovakia with reform of legal profession
  • Contributor to compendium of white papers on Terrorism Risk Insurance Act published by Defense Research Institute

More:
For biographical information go to:

http://law.usc.edu/contact/contactInfo.cfm?detailID=220