The Authors

Jacob Hale Russell (right) is associate professor of law at Rutgers Law School. Jacob began his career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. At Rutgers, he teaches business and property law. He studies the design of policy and institutions that are fair and responsive. His scholarship examines how insights from political science, psychology, finance, and economics can improve the effectiveness of legal policies and institutions. He is the co-editor of Fiduciary Obligations in Business (Cambridge, 2021).

Dennis Patterson (left) is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers Law School and Professor of Legal Philosophy at Surrey Law School, UK. His expertise is in commercial law, trade law and legal philosophy. He was the Chair in Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, has won senior research grants from the Fulbright Commission, Humboldt Stiftung, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, Texas and Georgetown. He is the author of numerous books and articles in law and philosophy, including Minds, Brains and Law: The Conceptual Foundations of Law and Neuroscience (Oxford 2013, with Michael Pardo); The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and the Future of Trade (Cambridge 2008, with Ari Afilalo); and Law and Truth (Oxford 1996).

Photo credit: Adam F. Scales, Invisible Lens Photography, Philadelphia, PA