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John N. Drobak

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George Alexander Madill Professor of Law and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Expertise: antitrust, civil procedure, economic regulation, law and the economy, political economy, property rights, constitution of Rebuplic of Georgia, interdisciplinary study

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John N. Drobak is a pioneer of interdisciplinary study who has embraced the value of looking to other fields to study long before it became popular to transcend academic boundaries. Drobak has brought his enthusiasm for interdisciplinary learning to the classroom as he teaches courses in the fields of economic regulation and of law and economics including Antitrust and Theory of Property Rights.

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Work:(314) 935-6487
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E-mail:drobak@wulaw.wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Sept. 15, 2005 -- Over the past five years, corporate governance has undergone historic changes. In addition to new policies enacted by state judiciaries and attorneys general, Congress adopted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enacted important securities law reforms, and the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ reformed listing standards. The world's leading experts on corporate governance will come together to discuss the impact of these changes during a conference at Washington University in St. Louis Sept. 29 - Oct. 1.


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Nov. 4, 2003 -- The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies and the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis will present the conference, "Globalization, the State, and Society," Nov. 13-14 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser Busch Hall. This event, which is free and open to the public, is planned as part of the University's Sesquicentennial celebration.



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Additional Background: In his pro bono work, Drobak has consulted with Czechoslovakia in connection with its voucher privatization of large government enterprises and with the Republic Of Georgia in connection with the drafting of a new constitution. His research has published numerous articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as the constitutional limits on utility rate-making, rent control, and other types of price regulation; the tension between federal state courts in the freeing of slaves in antebellum America; the Supreme Courts's role in the creation of a national commercial law in the 19th century; and the reexamination of legal incentives under modern cognitive science. His publications include The Frontiers of New Institutional Economics, which he co-edited with the Professor John Nye of the economics department.

A native of upstate New York Drobak earned Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and management science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He entered law school at Stanford University, where his studies included courses that applied economic analysis to legal problems. After earning his law degree from Stanford University in 1973, he clerked for the California Court of Appeal and them practiced law for five years with the firm Tyler, Cooper in New Haven, Connecticut. He joined the law faculty as Washington University in 1979 and now holds appointments in both the school of Law and the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences. Additionally, since 1991 Drobak has taught in an M.B.A. program for Eastern Europeans At the United States Business School in Prague, Czech Republic.

Recent Publications

Books

• Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics (eds. Drobak & Nye, Academic Press 1997)

Articles

• "Law Matters,"76 Washington University Law Quarterly 97 (1998)

Chapters in Books

• "Credible Commitment in the United States: Substantive and Structural Limits on the Avoidance of Public Debt" in Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics (above)

• "Legal Change in Economic Analysis" in Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, London 1998)

• "Cognitive Science" in Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, London1998)

• "Cognition, Institutional Economics, and Technological Innovation" in Proceedings of the 1998 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference


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Related Links:
•Drobak Web page (http://law.wustl.edu/faculty/index.asp?id=229)
•Record Article: Drobak helps new Czech economy emerge (http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1998/02-05-98/8920.html)

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