Louis Kaplow

Louis Kaplow (born June 17, 1956) is an American legal scholar and economist. He is the Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. He has made contributions to antitrust law, competition policy, intellectual property, and tax policy. Kaplow previously served as the president of the American Law and Economics Association, received its Coase Medal for major contributions to the field, and also received the Daniel M. Holland Medal for lifetime achievement from the National Tax Association.

Education Kaplow attended Northwestern University, completing a senior honors thesis and graduating in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in mathematics and economics as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then enrolled at Harvard Law School, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.), magna cum laude, in 1981. Kaplow continued graduate studies at Harvard University and received a Master of Arts (M.A.) in 1981 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1987, both in economics, as a fellow of the National Science Foundation.

Career From 1981 to 1982, Kaplow was a law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He gained admission to the bar of Massachusetts in 1983.

Kaplow is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. In 2019, Kaplow was awarded the Daniel M. Holland Medal of the National Tax Association.

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