Philip Petrov

I am the Wachtell Fellow in Behavioral Law and Economics, and an instructor, at the University of Chicago Law School (Ph.D., Stanford 2023; J.D., Harvard 2013; B.A., Columbia 2009). Earlier in my career, I worked as a practicing attorney.

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My current research studies private law theory (especially tort theory) and autocrats’ efforts to undermine liberal democracy using legal channels.

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In earlier research, I studied subjects such as judicial decision-making in tort and criminal law, the moral-conventional distinction, assumptions about political development in normative theory, and the cognitive bases of political identity.

 

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