Position Title
Professor of Law
Andrea Cann Chandrasekher holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a Masters in Statistics from UC Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern Law School where she co-taught courses in Criminal Law and Law and Economics, a Visiting Researcher at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and a Research Fellow at Stanford Law School.
Chandrasekher’s research lies within the fields of empirical arbitration and criminal justice public policy. In her empirical arbitration work, she has studied the repeat player effect as well as arbitrator diversity, in both commercial and employment arbitration. In her criminal justice-related work, she has investigated a variety of topics including policing, the relationship between home foreclosures and crime, and traffic accidents. She is also interested in the fields of applied econometrics and machine learning.
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- J.D. Stanford Law School, 2012
- Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
- M.A. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
- A.B. Economics and Public Policy, Stanford University, 1998
- Fellow, Stanford Law School, 2012 - 2013
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 2009 - 2012
- Visiting Researcher, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 2011 - 2012
- Law And Economics
- Criminal Law And Procedure
- Labor Law
- Law And Society
- Police And Policing
Publications
Arbitration Nation: Data from Four Providers (with David Horton), 107 Calif. L. Rev. 1 (2019).
Dual Process Theory of Racial Isolation, Legal Cynicism, and Reported Crime (with John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, and Daniel Herda), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (28) 7190-7199 (2018).
Empirically Validating the Police Liability Insurance Claim, 130 Harv. L. Rev. F. 233 (2017).
The Effect of Police Slowdowns on Crime, American Law and Economics Review, 18(2), Fall 2016.
Probate Lending, 126 Yale L.J. 1 (2016) (with David Horton).
Employment Arbitration After the Revolution, 65 Depaul L. Rev. 2 (2016) (with David Horton) (invited symposium contribution).
After the Revolution: An Empirical Study of Consumer Arbitration, 104 GEO. L.J. 57 (2015) (with David Horton). (Paper received the 2017 Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award).