David Weisbach
/ Alison Brizius
Walter J. Blum Professor, the Law School, University of Chicago
Director, Law & Economics Program, University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise:
- Entitlements
- Law and Economics
- Tax Law
Weisbach received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985; a Certificate for Advanced Studies in Mathematics from Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 1986; and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate in the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. In 1992 Weisbach joined the Department of Treasury where he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel and, subsequently, as associate tax legislative counsel. In 1996 Weisbach was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center and joined the Chicago faculty in 1998.
Research Projects
Trade and Carbon Taxes | Endogenous Technical Change in IAMs | Social cost of carbon and methane | Chicago Climate Online | webDICE | Optimal Timing of Energy Transition
Students
Adriana Ciccone | Misung Ahn | Jillian Durkin | Katrina Lewis
Former Students
Jeremy Klavans | Mark Woolley | Federico Simon | Aidan Sadowski | Hsin-Yi Chen | Matt Gee | Runnan Yang | Jeremy Archer
Kaplow, Louis, and David Weisbach. "Discount rates, social judgments, individuals' risk preferences, and uncertainty." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 42, no. 2 (2011): 125-143.
Earlier version also available as a working paper: Moyer EJ, Woolley MD, Glotter M, Weisbach DA. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. Working Paper 13-02, the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), July 2013. Available at http: //ssrn.com/abstract=2312770.
Elisabeth J. Moyer, Mark D. Woolley, Nathan J. Matteson, Michael J. Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. The Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2):401–425, 2014.
Moyer, E.J., Mark D. Woolley, Nathan D. Matteson, Michael J. Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. "Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon. " The Journal of Legal Studies 43, no. 2 (2014).
Earlier versions also available as working papers:
Moyer, Elisabeth J., Mark D. Woolley, Michael Glotter, and David A. Weisbach. "Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon." University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper 652 (2013).
Moyer EJ, Woolley MD, Glotter M, Weisbach DA. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. Working Paper 13-02, the Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), July 2013. Available at http: //ssrn.com/abstract=2312770.
David Weisbach and Stephen Gardiner. Debating Climate Change. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2015.
David A Weisbach. Distributionally weighted cost–benefit analysis: Welfare economics meets organizational design. Journal of Legal Analysis, 2014.
Earlier version also available as a working paper: Weisbach D. Should Environmental Taxes Be Precautionary? (January 30, 2012). RDCEP Working Paper No. 12-06.
Elliott, Joshua, Ian Foster, Samuel Kortum, Gita Khun Jush, Todd Munson, and David Weisbach. "Unilateral carbon taxes, border adjustments, and carbon leakage." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14 (2013): 207-243.