Max M. Schanzenbach is the Seigle Family Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law.
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Education
Schanzenbach received his JD from Yale Law School and his PhD in economics from Yale University.
Career
Schanzenbach joined the Northwestern University faculty in 2003 as an Assistant Professor of Law. He was named the Benjamin Mazur Professor of Law there in 2006. In the Spring of 2008, he was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Since 2012, he has been the co-editor-in-chief of the American Law and Economics Review.
Work
A 2007 study co-authored by Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff argued that there was no evidence that alternative investment strategies would have mitigated the financial crisis of 2007–08. Also in 2007, Schanzenbach and Emerson Tiller (who is also a professor at Northwestern) co-authored a study showing that judges appointed by Republicans tend to give harsher sentences for street crime, while those appointed by Democrats tend to punish white-collar criminals more severely. Schanzenbach has also studied police union contracts, including the contract made by the union representing officers in the Chicago Police Department.
Personal life
Schanzenbach is married to Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, a professor at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, with whom he has three children. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.