Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres ( born 1959 ) is an American professor at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management and author.

Life

Ayres studied for his education at Yale University, where he graduated in 1981 with Summa Cum Laude. In addition, he received his degree in Slavic studies and business. In 1986, he reached at Yale Law School, the J. D. and 1988 he managed the Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ayres taught after his end of the study at the School of Law at Northwestern University, the University of Virginia School of Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Law School and Yale University.

Since 1994 Ayres is a professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, where he teaches civil rights, commercial law, contract law, property law, corporate law and other legal areas. 2006 Ayres was elected as a member of the organization American Academy of Arts and Science. Furthermore, Ayres is a consultant as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Ayres writes for the magazine Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. In addition, Ayres worked throughout his professional career as a research fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

From the journal Chronicle of Higher Education Ayres has been described as a law- and- economics guru. Ayres published eight books and over 100 articles on various subjects. Ayres is one of the most important U.S. legal scholars of his generation.

Works

  • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking -by- Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart (Bantam, 2007)
  • Straightforward: How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, jointly with Jennifer Gerarda Brown ( Princeton University Press, 2005)
  • Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements ( University of Chicago Press, 2005 )
  • Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent, jointly with Gregory Klass ( Yale University Press, 2005)
  • Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve problem Big and Small, jointly with Barry Nalebuff (Harvard Business School Press, 2003 )
  • Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance, jointly with Bruce Ackerman ( Yale University Press, 2002)
  • Pervasive Prejudice? Non-Traditional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination ( University of Chicago Press, 2001 )

Two of Ian Ayres ' familiar Articles are:

  • "Fair Driving: Gender and Race Discrimination in Retail Car Negotiations", 104 Harvard Law Review 817 (1991 )
  • Filling Gaps in Incomplete Contracts: An Economic Theory of Default Rules, jointly with Robert Gertner, 99 Yale Law Journal 87, ( 1989, PDF file, 4.39 MB )
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