Peter Siegelman
  • Affiliated Research Professor
Joint Appointment
Phillip I. Blumberg Professor of Law, University of Connecticut Law School
Education
Ph.D., in Economics, Yale University
M.S.L., (Master of Studies in Law), Yale Law School
B.A., in History, Swarthmore College

Peter Siegelman

  • Affiliated Research Professor
ABF Researcher

Peter Siegelman is the Phillip I. Blumberg Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut Law School and an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. An economist whose interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on discrimination, insurance, law and economics, and contracts, he previously taught at Fordham Law School from 2000 to 2004 and has visited at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv Universities in Israel, the University of Navarra in Spain, and the University of Michigan Law School. Since 2012, he has also held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut.

The 2011 recipient of the Robert C. Witt Award for the best article in theĀ Journal of Risk and Insurance, Professor Siegelman is the author or coauthor of more than forty scholarly articles and book chapters. His work in progress includes articles on the effect of deadlines on federal district court judges and negative spillovers from insurance.

Research Focus

Employment discrimination, contracts, insurance law and economics, empirical law and economics