Abraham L. Wickelgren

Abraham L. Wickelgren is the Fred and Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

His research focuses on the economic analysis of antitrust, contracts, regulation, and the settlement of legal disputes. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization and previously served as co-editor of the American Law and Economics Review. He has also been an associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and the International Review of Law and Economics and served on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association.

Before joining the University of Texas School of Law, Wickelgren was an assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale Law School and Duke University School of Law and a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Earlier in his career, he spent five years as a staff economist in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.

Wickelgren earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a bachelor’s in applied mathematics and economics, cum laude, from Harvard College.