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11/12/2007 ~ 11/13/2007 at Cowin Center, Teachers College
John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin
Neil Komesar is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin. He holds B.A., M.A., J.D. and Ph.D. (economics) degrees from the University of Chicago. He teaches or has taught torts, property, constitutional law, law and economics and advanced legal analysis.
Professor Komesar has written on a wide variety of subjects, including constitutional theory, tort reform, land use, damages, criminal victimization, public interest law, property rights, landlord-tenant law and class actions. He has developed an approach to the analysis of law and public policy called comparative institutional analysis and has authored two books on the subject, Imperfect AlternativesB Choosing Institutions in Law, Economics, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and Law''s LimitsB The Role of Courts, the Rule of Law and the Supply and Demand of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001).