Biography
Jennifer Arlen
Faculty in Residence
J.D. New York University Law
Ph.D. New York University
Professor Jennifer Arlen is a respected authority on medical malpractice, corporate liability (including corporate crime), and corporate governance. Arlen also has written on experimental economics. Her article, “Torts, Expertise and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations,” co-authored with W. Bentley MacLeod, was published in the prestigious RAND Journal of Economics, a journal that rarely accepts work from law professors. Previously, she was a Professor of Law and Business at University of Southern California Law School, where she served as a founding director of the USC Center in Law, Economics and Organization.
After receiving her J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University, she joined the faculty at New York University Law School, where she teaches torts, corporations, business crime and securities fraud litigation. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and the California Institute of Technology; and was an Olin Fellow at Berkeley Law School. She began teaching law at Emory Law School and clerked for The Honorable Phyllis Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
