Vanderbilt University Law School
Paul H. Edelman
Professor of Mathematics Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 322-0990
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: paul.edelman@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 269
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Research Interest(s)
Social choice, measuring representation, measuring voting power, law and economics
Education
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A. Swarthmore College
Biography
Paul H. Edelman holds a joint appointment in the Department of Mathematics and the School of Law. A distinguished mathematician whose scholarship in mathematics has focused on combinatorics, Professor Edelman's work pertaining to the law includes articles on judicial decision making and public choice. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, Professor Edelman taught at the University of Minnesota, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Representative Publications
Articles
"The Most Dangerous Justice Rides into the Sunset," 24 Constitutional Commentary 299 (2007) (with Jim Chen)
"What Are We Comparing in Comparative Negligence?" 85 Washington University Law Review 73 (2007)
“Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship,” 11 Green Bag 2d 19 (2007) (with Tracey George)
"Getting the Math Right: Why California Has Too Many Seats in the House of Representatives," 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 297 (2006)
"The Allocation Problem in Multiple-Claimant Representations," 14 Supreme Court Economic Review 95 (2006) (with Richard Nagareda and Charles Silver)
"Making Votes Count in Local Elections: A Mathematical Appraisal of At-Large Representation," 4 Election Law Journal 258 (2005)
"Modeling Corporate Voting and its Implications for the Takeover Debate," 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 453 (2005) (with Randall Thomas)
"Law Clerks, Law Reviews, and Some Modest Proposals," 7 Green Bag 335 (2004)
"The Dimension of the Supreme Court," 20 Constitutional Commentary 557 (2003)
"On Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem," 98 Journal of Legal Studies 327 (2002)
"Pick a Number, Any Number: State Representation in Congress After the 2000 Census," 90 California Law Review 211 (2002) (with Suzanna Sherry)
Working Papers
"Measuring Deviations from Expected Voting Patterns on Collegial Courts" (with David Klein and Stefanie Lindquist)
Presentations
- "Mathematics and the Law: The Apportionment of the House of Representatives," Invited Address, AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, January 2008
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