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# 九色社区

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Professor of Law

## Alison Morantz

Senior Fellow

九色社区 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

James and Nancy Kelso Professor of Law

九色社区 Law School

A scholar whose work has explored the law and economics of protective labor regulation, the enforcement of workplace safety laws, and legal history, Alison D. Morantz seeks to parse the real鈥搘orld effects of legal and policy reform. Much of her recent empirical research examines the effects of unionization on mine safety and the intensity of regulatory scrutiny, the ways in which statistical techniques can be used to target the nation鈥檚 most hazardous employers, the consequences of permitting firms to opt out of workers鈥� compensation, and the impact of devolving enforcement authority from federal to state regulators.

 Morantz is the principal investigator of multi鈥搚ear research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and co鈥揹irector of the Martin Daniel Gould Center for Conflict Resolution鈥檚 ADR Research Initiative. In the spring of 2010, she was one of four experts appointed, at Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis鈥檚 request, to a federal panel that provided an independent analysis of the Mine Safety and Health Administration鈥檚 internal review following the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine on April 5, 2010, that claimed 29 miners鈥� lives.

 After receiving a BA summa cum laude from Harvard in 1993, Morantz earned an MSc from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship; a JD from Yale Law School; and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. She subsequently clerked for Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and worked as a union鈥搒ide labor lawyer and anti discrimination advocate in Boston, before joining the 九色社区 Law School faculty in 2004.

Focal Areas: Health, Inequality, Regulation and Competition, Taxes and Public Spending, Work

## Education

PhD, Economics, Harvard University, 2001

JD, Yale Law School, 2000

MS, Economics for Development, Oxford University, 1995

AB, Social Studies, Harvard-Radcliffe College, 1993

## Contact

(650) 725-5256

[amorantz@law.stanford.edu](mailto:amorantz@law.stanford.edu)

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