Biography
Avery Katz has been added to the Law School faculty with a joint appointment in economics. A graduate of The University of Michigan in economics, he earned both the J.D. and the Ph.D. in economics at Harvard.

Katz has been involved in research applying economic analysis to civil procedure. His doctoral dissertation, Essays on the Economics of Litigation, consists of three separate essays on related topics: economic determinants of litigation expenditure, the relative merits of the English and the American rules for funding litigation, and an economic analysis of frivolous law suits.

-- From the University of Michigan Law School's Law Quadrangle Notes, V. 31, Iss. 01 (Fall 1986).