Aaron Edlin

Aaron S. Edlin (born 1967) is an American economist and lawyer specializing in antitrust and competition policy. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust. In 1999, he co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press, an electronic publishing company that assists with scholarly communication.

Early years Edlin graduated in 1988 Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School Science and Policy Program with an A.B. degree in physics and economics. In 1993, he received a Ph.D. in economics, and a J.D. from Stanford University.

Career Edlin became a tenured professor of economics at University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and the following year, he became tenured in the School of Law as well. Since 2005, he has held the Richard W. Jennings '39 Endowed Chair. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and Columbia Law School.

He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2000 through 2003, he served on the American Law and Economics Association's board of directors, and again beginning in 2013.

Personal life Edlin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Partial bibliography Edlin, A. S., Stiglitz, J. E., & De Long, J. B. (2008). The economists' voice: Top economists take on today's problems. New York: Columbia University Press. Areeda, Phillip; Kaplow, Louis; Edlin, Aaron S. (2004). Antitrust analysis: Problems, text, cases. New York: Aspen.