Daniel Klerman

Tenure Track Appointments

• Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California, 01/01/2001 –
• Associate Professor, USC Law School, 01/01/1998 – 01/01/2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School, 01/01/1997 – 01/01/1998
• Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School, 01/01/1995 – 01/01/1998
• Law Clerk, Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court, 01/01/1993 – 01/01/1994
• Law Clerk, Judge Richard A. Posner, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 01/01/1992 – 01/01/1993
• Visiting Professor, Caltech, –
• Visiting Professor, Caltech, –

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Klerman’s scholarship uses economics and statistics to understand legal history. In 2004, the American Society for Legal History awarded his article, “Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?” the Sutherland Prize for the best article in English legal history published in 2003. In 2001, his article, “Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in
Thirteenth-Century England,” received the Selden Society’s David Yale Prize
for distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal
institutions of England and Wales.

• The Sutherland Prize, for the best article in English legal history published in 2003 awarded byThe American Society for Legal History awarded me, 2004