Professor Daniel Schwarcz writes and teaches in the fields of insurance law, contract law, tort law, and commercial law. His research primarily focuses on the optimal design of legal rules and regulatory bodies in consumer insurance markets. Professor Schwarcz was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Tenure-Track Teacher of the Year for 2007-2008. He also serves as a Funded Consumer Representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Professor Schwarcz earned his A.B., magna cum laude, from Amherst College and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. While in law school, he was an Articles Editor for the Harvard Law Review and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. After law school, he clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced at the law firm Ropes & Gray, where he worked mainly on insurance law matters. He subsequently spent two years as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
Redesigning Consumer Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the British and American Approaches to Insurance Claims Conflict, 83 Tulane Law Review 735 (2009)
