Courses Taught

Contracts
Corporations
Contract Theory (seminar)

Profile

Professor Adam B. Badawi is an expert in contracts and commercial law, concentrating on the interaction between formal law and informal norms to regulate behavior. He holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California–Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on legal and extra-legal ordering. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Professor Badawi has presented at workshops and conferences that include the Annual Meeting of the American Law and Economics Association and the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Before becoming a law professor, he clerked for the Hon. Michael W. McConnell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and then practiced law at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco. Professor Badawi also served as a Bigelow Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School.