Anup Malani

Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior consultant at Compass Lexecon.

His research focuses on law & economics, health economics, and development economics. His work examines judicial behavior and legal reform, blockchain and contracting, infectious disease, medical innovation, health insurance, and health care delivery and financing in developing countries.

Malani is co-founder and faculty director of the International Innovation Corps and was founding faculty director of the Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago. Before joining the University of Chicago faculty, he was an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and held a joint appointment at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard Law School.

Malani is co-author of “Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-Up Problem in Contracts?” and has co-edited books on Web3, health care reform, and antibiotic resistance. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and previously served as an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Malani earned a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D., with high honors, from the University of Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.