Biography
Paul Edelman holds a joint appointment in Vanderbilt's Department of Mathematics and the law school. 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, the electoral vote system, public choice and corporations. Before joining Vanderbilt's faculty, Edelman taught at the University of Minnesota, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. He took emeritus status in January 2022.
Programs
Education
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A. Swarthmore College
Related Resources
Publications
"Political Hypotheses and Mathematical Conclusions"
"Political Hypotheses and Mathematical Conclusions" in Future of Economic Design, Springer (Jean-Francois Laslier, Herve Moulin, M. Remzi Sanver and William S. Zwicker, editors) (2019)
FULL TEXT: SSRNIs Groton the Next Evenwel?
"Is Groton the Next Evenwel?" 117 Michigan Law Review Online 63 (2018)
FULL TEXT: | WWWWill Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?
"Will Tenure Voting Give Corporate Managers Lifetime Tenure?" 97 Texas Law Review (2018) (with Wei Jiang and Randall Thomas)
FULL TEXT: | WWWVoting Power and Dual Districting
"Evenwel, Voting Power and Dual Districting," 45 Journal of Legal Studies 203 (2016)
FULL TEXT: | PDFVoting Power Apportionments
Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism
The Institutional Dimension of Election Design
"The Institutional Dimension of Election Design," 153 Public Choice 287 (2012)
FULL TEXT: SSRNSelectica Resets the Trigger on the Poison Pill: Where Should the Delaware Courts Go Next?
Consensus, Disorder and Ideology on the Supreme Court
The Inverse Banzhaf Problem
"The Inverse Banzhaf Problem," 34 Social Choice and Welfare 371 (2010) (with Noga Alon)