Leo Katz

Leo Katz is an American lawyer and the Frank Carano Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Biography Katz is the son of the historian Friedrich Katz and Jana Badian Katz. Katz earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1979. He earned both a master's degree in economics from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1982. He then joined Mayer, Brown and Platt as an associate. Katz has also authored numerous articles for law journals, as well as for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, and The American Lawyer. He has two daughters.

Books Why the Law Is So Perverse (2011) Foundations of the Criminal Law, ed., with Michael Moore and Stephen Morse (1999) Ill-gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (1996) Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (1987)