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The Manhattan
Institute’s Center for Legal Policy is seeking a full-time
research fellow to help create and pursue a research agenda
studying the economic effects of the American civil justice
system. One of the nation’s foremost think tanks, the Manhattan
Institute has been studying civil justice in America for almost
twenty years. Manhattan Institute senior fellows Peter Huber and
Walter Olson have been called the “intellectual gurus of tort
reform.”
Applicants should be
interested in how legal incentives function with markets, have
clear thoughts about problems in contemporary tort law, and have
some ideas about how to develop an empirical program in this
area. Applicants should ideally have a PhD in economics or a
comparable indicator of statistical aptitude, in addition to a
strong interest in and familiarity with the law, if not a JD
degree.
Manhattan Institute
fellows need not live or work in New York; our fellows are
typically off-site. Pay for this position will be very
competitive with comparable non-profit opportunities. A
competitive package of benefits, including health insurance, is
also offered. Requests for proposals on a contract basis will
also be considered.
If interested, please
contact Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, at
jcopland@manhattan-institute.org, or (212) 599-7000.
CV’s for a full-time fellowship should include a list of
publications and three references. CV’s for contract work should
include a list of publications plus a 2-page proposal abstract. |
