Kathryn Zeiler
Professor of Law
B.S., Indiana University; M.S. (Taxation), Golden Gate University; J.D., University of Southern California; M.S. (Social Science), Ph.D. (Economics), California Institute of Technology
Areas of Expertise:
Health Law and Policy and Bioethics, Law and Economics, Torts
Professor Zeiler teaches Torts and Economic Analysis of Health Care Law, and co-directs the Georgetown Law & Economics Workshop. Her research focuses on health care...
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Professor Zeiler teaches Torts and Economic Analysis of Health Care Law, and co-directs the Georgetown Law & Economics Workshop. Her research focuses on health care law and economics, medical malpractice liability and insurance, disclosure regulation, experimental economics and behavioral law and economics.
Before joining the faculty in 2003, she received a Ph.D. in Economics from the California Institute of Technology and a J.D. from the University of Southern California. She has been a visiting professor at NYU and Harvard Law Schools and has served as a Senior Academic Fellow at Harvard Law School's Petrie-Flom Center. Her recent publications include: The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations (with Charles R. Plott) (American Economic Review ); Common Law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-theories (with Kimberly Krawiec) (Virginia Law Review ); Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award?: Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003 (with David A. Hyman, Bernard S. Black, Charles Silver and William M. Sage) (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies ); Asymmetries in Exchange Behavior Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory? (with Charles R. Plott) (American Economic Review ); Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field (with Michelle M. Mello) (Georgetown Law Journal ); and Physicians' Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003 (with Charles Silver, Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman and William M. Sage) (Journal of Legal Studies ); Cautions on the Use of Economics Experiments in Law (Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics) and The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures: Reply (American Economic Review).
She is a member of the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association and a member of the Max Planck Institute's Scientific Review Board for Research on Collective Goods.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics (Kathryn Zeiler & Joshua C. Teitelbaum eds., Edward Elgar forthcoming).
- Kathryn Zeiler & Lorian E. Hardcastle, Do Damages Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums?: A Systematic Review of Estimates and the Methods Used to Produce Them, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts (Jennifer Arlen ed., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar forthcoming). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Tort Reform Impacts, in Tort Law Handbook (Jennifer Arlen ed., forthcoming).
- Kathryn Zeiler & Gregory Klass, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Kathryn Zeiler & Charles R. Plott, The Willingness to Pay—Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect,” Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: Reply, 101 Am. Econ. Rev. 1012-1028 (2011). [SSRN] [WWW]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics (Kathryn Zeiler & Joshua C. Teitelbaum eds., Edward Elgar forthcoming).
- Kathryn Zeiler & Lorian E. Hardcastle, Do Damages Caps Reduce Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums?: A Systematic Review of Estimates and the Methods Used to Produce Them, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts (Jennifer Arlen ed., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar forthcoming). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Tort Reform Impacts, in Tort Law Handbook (Jennifer Arlen ed., forthcoming).
- Kathryn Zeiler & Gregory Klass, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Kathryn Zeiler, The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory, (work in progress).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Kathryn Zeiler & Charles R. Plott, The Willingness to Pay—Willingness to Accept Gap, the “Endowment Effect,” Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: Reply, 101 Am. Econ. Rev. 1012-1028 (2011). [SSRN] [WWW]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Cautions on the Use of Economics Experiments in Law, 166 J. Institutional & Theoretical Econ. 178-193 (2010). [W]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Medical Malpractice Liability Crisis or Patient Compensation Crisis?, 59 DePaul L. Rev. 675-696 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Kathryn Zeiler & Michelle M. Mello, Empirical Health Law Scholarship: The State of the Field, 96 Geo. L.J. 649-702 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Charles Silver, Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman & William M. Sage, Malpractice Payouts and Malpractice Insurance: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, 33 Geneva Papers on Risk & Ins. 177-192 (2008).
- Kathryn Zeiler, David A. Hyman, Bernard Black, Charles Silver & William Sage, Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 4 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 3-68 (2007). [HEIN] [SSRN]
- Kathryn Zeiler & Charles R. Plott, Exchange Asymmetries Incorrectly Interpreted as Evidence of Endowment Effect Theory and Prospect Theory?, 97 Am. Econ. Rev. 1449-1466 (2007). [SSRN] [WWW]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Charles Silver, Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman & William M. Sage, Physicians' Insurance Limits and Malpractice Payments: Evidence from Texas Closed Claims, 1990-2003, 36 J. Legal Stud. S9-S45 (2007). [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Kathryn Zeiler & Charles R. Plott, The Willingness to Pay—Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations, 95 Am. Econ. Rev. 530-545 (2005). [WWW]
- Kathryn Zeiler & Kimberly D. Krawiec, Common-Law Disclosure Duties and the Sin of Omission: Testing the Meta-Theories, 91 Va. L. Rev. 1795-1882 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Kathryn Zeiler, Turning From Damage Caps to Information Disclosure: An Alternative to Tort Reform, 5 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 385-398 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
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Jacquelyn Williams
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Monday & Wednesday 4:45-5:45pm, Tuesday 3:20-4:20pm, & by appointment
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