Claire Priest

U.S.; law

E-mail: c-priestlaw.northwestern.edu

Claire Priest (BA, JD, PhD, Yale University) joined the Northwestern Law faculty in fall 2002 as an Assistant Professor of law. Her research interests include contracts, property, remedies, commercial law and legal history. Professor Priest served as an Articles Editor (1999-2000) and Symposium Chair (1998-99) for the Yale Law Journal. Her Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the Yale Graduate School's George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation in American History, and the Economic History Association's Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American or Canadian Economic History (2003).

Past Appointments: Law Clerk, Hon. Jon O. Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2001-02; Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law, 2000-01; Research Associate, Yale Law School Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy, summers 1998 and 1999.

Selected Publications: "Law and Commerce" in The Cambridge History of Law in America (forthcoming); "Currency Policies and Legal Development in Colonial New England" in the Yale Law Journal (2001); "Note, Colonial Courts and Secured Credit: Early American Commercial Litigation and Shay's Rebellion" in the Yale Law Journal (1999).

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