Frank Fagan
Associate Professor
Law
EDHEC Business School
France
Biography
Frank Fagan is Associate Professor of Law and a member of the LegalEDHEC research center. He specializes in law and economics. His writing spans the laws of torts, crimes, taxation, and corporations, and uses standard economic theory, econometrics, and big data prediction techniques. He has written extensively on the timing of lawmaking. His book, Law and the Limits of Government, is viewed as a leading treatment of the subject. His work in progress is varied, and considers the efficiency of common law systems, the importance of the subconscious in compliance behavior, civil procedures for artificial intelligences, and the role of secrecy in agreements to settle litigation.
Research Interest
civil procedures, Public Law and Statutory Interpretation
Publications
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The Fiscal Cliff as Reelection Strategy: Rethinking the Temporary Taxation Debate, 116 West Virginia University Law Review (2014)
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Sunsets and Federal Lawmaking: Evidence from the 110th Congress (w/ F. Bilgel), 41 International Review of Law and Economics (2015)
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Successor Liability from the Perspective of Big Data, 9 Virginia Law and Business Review (2015)
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Political Paralysis and Timing Rules, 91 New York University Law Review Online (2016)
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Semi-Confidential Settlements in Civil, Criminal, and Sexual Assault Cases (w/ S. Levmore), 103 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2017)
