Dave Hoffman, an expert in contracts, law and psychology, and empirical legal studies, is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. is a member of From 2004 through 2016, he was a professor at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, where he was, most recently, the Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law.
Hoffman's scholarship uses observational and experimental data to explore individuals' behavior relating to legal rules. His recent work on contract, for example, investigated whether millennials have developed a distinctive set of views about promising turning on their experiences with online commercial transactions. In other papers--written jointly with a multidiscipinary team based at Yale Law School-- he has shown how the perceived benefits and risks of political demonstrations are contingent on people's values and such deeply rooted perceptions influence judgments of fact in civil rights cases. In other projects, Hoffman has has explored the dispute resolution system using data from court dockets.
Before joining the legal academy, Hoffman was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City and a law clerk for Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in archeology and history from Yale University.
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Dave Hoffman, an expert in contracts, law and psychology, and empirical legal studies, is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. is a member of From 2004 through 2016, he was a professor at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, where he was, most recently, the Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law.
Hoffman's scholarship uses observational and experimental data to explore individuals' behavior relating to legal rules. His recent work on contract, for example, investigated whether millennials have developed a distinctive set of views about promising turning on their experiences with online commercial transactions. In other papers--written jointly with a multidiscipinary team based at Yale Law School-- he has shown how the perceived benefits and risks of political demonstrations are contingent on people's values and such deeply rooted perceptions influence judgments of fact in civil rights cases. In other projects, Hoffman has has explored the dispute resolution system using data from court dockets.
Before joining the legal academy, Hoffman was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City and a law clerk for Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in archeology and history from Yale University.
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405
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