David Weisbach

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Walter J. Blum Professor, the Law School, University of Chicago

Director, Law & Economics Program, University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise:

  • Entitlements
  • Law and Economics
  • Tax Law

Weisbach received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985; a Certificate for Advanced Studies in Mathematics from Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 1986; and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate in the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. In 1992 Weisbach joined the Department of Treasury where he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel and, subsequently, as associate tax legislative counsel. In 1996 Weisbach was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center and joined the Chicago faculty in 1998.

Research Projects

Trade and Carbon Taxes | Endogenous Technical Change in IAMs | Social cost of carbon and methane | Chicago Climate Online | webDICE | Optimal Timing of Energy Transition

Students

Adriana Ciccone | Misung Ahn | Jillian Durkin | Katrina Lewis

Former Students

Jeremy Klavans | Mark Woolley | Federico Simon | Aidan Sadowski | Hsin-Yi Chen | Matt Gee | Runnan Yang | Jeremy Archer

recent publications
Joshua Elliott et al. "Unilateral carbon taxes, border adjustments, and carbon leakage." Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14 (2013): 207-243.
Elliott, Joshua, Ian Foster, Samuel Kortum, Gita Khun Jush, Todd Munson, and David Weisbach. "Unilateral Carbon Taxes Border Adjustments and Carbon Leakage" (2012). RDCEP Working Paper No. 12-04.
Elliott, Joshua, Ian Foster, Samuel Kortum, Todd Munson, Fernando Perez Cervantes, and David Weisbach. "Trade and carbon taxes." The American Economic Review (2010): 465-469.
Kaplow, Louis, and David Weisbach. "Discount rates, social judgments, individuals' risk preferences, and uncertainty." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 42, no. 2 (2011): 125-143.
Louis Kaplow et al. "The social evaluation of intergenerational policies & its application to integrated assessment models of climate change."BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10, no. 2 (2010).
Elisabeth Moyer et al. "Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon." University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Paper 652 (2013).
E J Moyer, M D Woolley, N J Matteson, M J Glotter, and D A Weisbach. Climate impacts on economic growth as drivers of uncertainty in the social cost of carbon. The Journal of Legal Studies, 2014
Elisabeth J. Moyer et al. "Climate Impacts on Economic Growth as Drivers of Uncertainty in the Social Cost of Carbon. " The Journal of Legal Studies 43, no. 2 (2014).
Posner, Eric A., and David A. Weisbach. "International paretianism: a defense." Chicago Journal of International Law 13. (2013): 348-358.
David Weisbach and Stephen Gardiner. Debating Climate Change. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2015.
Weisbach, David A. "Designing Subsidies for Low Carbon Energy." Journal of Environmental and Sustainablility Law 20 (2013): 1.
David A Weisbach. Distributionally weighted cost–benefit analysis: Welfare economics meets organizational design. Journal of Legal Analysis, 2014.
Weisbach David A. "Carbon taxation in the EU: expanding the EU carbon price." Journal of Environmental Law 24. (2012): 183-206.
Weisbach David A. "Negligence, strict liability, and responsibility for climate change." Iowa Law Review 97. (2012): 521-565.
Weisbach David A. "Should environmental taxes be precautionary?" National Tax Journal 65. (2012): 453-474.
Weisbach David A. "Instrument Choice is Instrument Design." In: Metcalf G U.S. Energy Tax Policy. Gilbert Metcalf ed. U.S. Energy Tax Policy. Cambridge University Press; 2011.