Officers

Richard R.W. Brooks, President

Emilie M. Bullowa Professor of Law
New York University School of Law

Richard R.W. Brooks is the Emilie M. Bullowa Professor of Law at New York University. He joined the law faculty at NYU in 2018, after holding the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professorship of Law at Yale Law School followed by the Charles Keller Beekman Professorship of Law at Columbia Law School. Brooks’ scholarly approach combines economics, game theory and legal analytical methods in the study of private law fields—such as contract, property, fiduciary and corporate law—and social organization more broadly.

Lee Anne Fennell, Vice President

Max Pam Professor of Law
at the University of Chicago Law School

Lee Anne Fennell is the Max Pam Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she has taught since 2007. She previously served as a Bigelow Fellow at Chicago, taught on the faculties of the University of Texas School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law, and held visiting positions at Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, and the University of Virginia School of Law. Before teaching law, she practiced at Pettit & Martin, the State and Local Legal Center, and the Virginia School Boards Association.

Her teaching and research interests include property, torts, land use, housing, social welfare law, state and local government law, and public finance. She is the author of The Unbounded Home: Property Values Beyond Property Lines (Yale University Press 2009) and Slices and Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Law and Life (University of Chicago Press, 2019), as well as many articles and essays.

Dhammika Dharmapala, Secretary-Treasurer

Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley

Dhammika Dharmapala is a Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He joined Berkeley Law in 2023 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law. He serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation, a fellow of the CESifo Research Network, a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He has also served as Co-President of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. He has held postdoctoral or visiting positions at various institutions, including Harvard, Michigan, Georgetown, Oxford, the Australian National University, and the International Monetary Fund. His research spans the fields of taxation and public finance, the economic analysis of law, and corporate finance and governance, and has been published in leading journals in law, economics, and finance.