Colton Cronin is a fourth-year student whose research focuses on aggregate litigation, employment law, and access to justice. He currently serves as Senior Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review, where he leads the Article Selections Committee. He has worked as a research assistant for Professor Joni Hersch since 2019. In the summer of 2023, he was an Equal Justice Works Summer Fellow at West Tennessee Legal Services. As an undergraduate, he served as a teaching assistant for Applied Econometrics and Economics of Risk courses at Vanderbilt, and he was a research assistant with the Vanderbilt University Experimental Economics Lab and the Center on Law, Business, and Economics at the Northwestern Pritzker School Of Law.

Education:
B.A. in Mathematics and Economics with Minors in English and Scientific Computing, Vanderbilt University, 2021

Publications:

• Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Colton Cronin & Neil Chin, Why College Majors and Selectivity Matter: Major Groupings, Occupation Specificity, and Job Skills, 42 CONTEMP. ECON. POL’Y 278 (2024).
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12634
• Joni Hersch & Colton Cronin, The Charter School Network (Almost) No One Wants: Mobilizing Regulation and Litigation to Serve the Public Interest, 44 CARDOZO L. REV. 1299 (2023).
  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4241256