Visit by Professor Claire A. Hill
Visit by Professor Claire A. Hill
This month professor Claire A. Hill from the University of Minnesota Law School, has been visited CBS Public-Private Platform and platform member Henrik Lando. Lando elaborates on the visit:
"Claire Hill, who is professor at University of Minnesota Law School, visited the CBS Public-Private Platform cluster for Public-Private Partnerships and the Law Department where her host was Professor Henrik Lando. Professor Hill works in the area of law and economics, taking often an unconventionally broad perspective that includes how people form their beliefs and make decisions and how this process may deviate from conventional assumptions in economics and in law. In doing so, she draws on other disciplines, mainly psychology, as she did in her talk at CBS, which concerned how people often fail to take into account the extent to which their own beliefs and decisions, and those of other people, reflect their respective starting points. Such starting points, or priors, may shape people's behavior just as much as incentives and legal regulations, and progress may come about by understanding far more about this process, including the significant role people's values, intuitions, and senses of identity play in their views of what they and others, and the law, should do. During her visit here, she interviewed several people for her current project on how the State and the Public Sector is perceived differently in the States as compared to Denmark. In her current project she explores how ingrained attitudes to the public versus the private sector shapes views on the proper private/public boundary."
Claire A. Hill
Claire joined the Law School faculty in 2006 after a year as a visiting professor. She teaches corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and a seminar in law and economics. She is the founding director of the Law School’s Institute for Law and Rationality, and the associate director of its Institute for Law and Economics. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the University’s Center for Cognitive Sciences. Claire received her B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, her J.D., summa cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law, and an LL.M and J.S.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was an Olin Fellow.
For some of her recent publications, she suggests:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=844345
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1922843
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1534904
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/author/claire-hill