"Contributors" [2012] ELECD 299; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen; Cassone, Alberto; Ramello, B. Giovanni (eds), "The Law and Economics of Class Actions in Europe" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: The Law and Economics of Class Actions in Europe

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen; Cassone, Alberto; Ramello, B. Giovanni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847208033

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 10

Extract:

Contributors

Jürgen G. Backhaus holds the Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal
Sociology at Erfurt University, a post he has held since November 2000.
Between 1986 and 2000, he held the chair in Public Economics at Maas-
tricht University. In September 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctor-
ate by the University of Thessaly (Greece). He has published 68 books and
monographs, more than 200 articles in refereed journals and book chapters,
some 30 scholarly notes and more than 60 reviews. His research interests
span economics, but also neighboring disciplines such as law, fiscal sociol-
ogy, and environmental sciences. In 1994 he founded (with Frank H.
Stephen) the European Journal of Law and Economics, of which he is the
managing editor.
Having edited the Elgar Companion to Law and Economics (1999, 2005),
he has published ­ together with Richard E. Wagner of George Mason
University ­ another reference work, The Handbook of Public Finance
(2004).
Judge Guido Calabresi was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July
1994, and entered into duty on 16 September 1994. Prior to his appoint-
ment, he was Dean and Sterling Professor at the Yale School where he
began teaching in 1959. He continues to serve as a member of that Faculty
as Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer.
Judge Calabresi received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Yale
College in 1953, a B.A. degree with First Class Honors from Magdalen
College, Oxford University, in 1955, an LL.B. degree, magna cum laude, ...