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Todd Zywicki

George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

Todd J. Zywicki is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and former Executive Director of the GMU Law and Economics Center. He served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law & Economics in 2019. From 2003-2004, Professor Zywicki served as the Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission. In 2009, Professor Zywicki was the recipient of the Institute for Humane Studies 2009 Charles G. Koch Outstanding IHS Alum Award. He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He teaches in the area of Bankruptcy, Contracts, Commercial Law, Law & Economics, and Public Choice and the Law. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law.

Scholarship

November 1, 2017

Punishing Rewards: How clamping down on credit card interchange fees can hurt the middle class

Geoffrey A. Manne & Todd Zywicki & Julian Morris & Ian Lee
Over the past 20 years, credit cards have become an increasingly popular means of paying for goods and services in Canada. Today nearly 90 percent of Canadian adults own a credit card and approximately 65 percent of all point of sale payments are made using credit cards.
Financial Regulation
September 1, 2017

The Fundamental Flaws in Behavioral L&E Arguments Against No-Surcharge Laws

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout & Todd Zywicki
During the past decade, academics—predominantly scholars of behavioral law and economics—have increasingly turned to the claimed insights of behavioral economics in order to craft novel policy proposals in many fields, most significantly consumer credit regulation.
Financial Regulation
June 1, 2014

Price Controls on Payment Card Interchange Fees: The U.S. Experience

Geoffrey A. Manne & Julian Morris & Todd Zywicki
The Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation capped debit card interchange fees for banks with assets of $10 billion. Credit card and prepaid card interchange fees were not regulated.
Financial Regulation
January 1, 2014

Uncertainty, Evolution and Behavioral Economic Theory

Geoffrey A. Manne & Todd Zywicki
Armen Alchian was one of the great economists of the twentieth century, and his 1950 paper, Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory, one of the most important contributions to the economic literature.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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November 1, 2017

Punishing Rewards: How clamping down on credit card interchange fees can hurt the middle class

September 1, 2017

Behavioral Law & Economics Goes to Court: The Fundamental Flaws in the Behavioral Economics Arguments Against No-Surcharge Laws

May 1, 2017

Durbin’s Debit-Card Price Controls Hit the Poor Hardest

January 9, 2017

The Constitution Says Nothing About Behavioral Economics

December 21, 2016

Amicus brief of ICLE & Scholars of Law & Economics, Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman, SCOTUS

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