James E. Krier, the Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law Emeritus, has taught courses on contracts, property, trusts and estates, behavioral law and economics, and pollution policy. His research interests are primarily in the fields of property and law and economics, and he is the author or co-author of several books, including
Environmental Law and Policy,
Pollution and Policy, and
Property (8th ed.). Professor Krier's most recent articles have been published in the
Harvard Law Review, the
Supreme Court Economic Review, the
UCLA Law Review, and the
Cornell Law Review. A professor of law at UCLA and Stanford before joining the Michigan Law faculty in 1983, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and the University of Alabama Law School. He earned his BS with honors and his JD with highest honors from the University of Wisconsin, where he was articles editor of the
Wisconsin Law Review. After graduation from law school, he served for one year as law clerk to The Hon. Roger J. Traynor, chief justice of the Supreme Court of California. He then practiced law for two years with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. In 2012, he was awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize.