Peter Siegelman

Peter Siegelman is an economist whose interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on discrimination, insurance, law and economics, and contracts. The holder of a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s degree in the study of law from Yale University, Professor Siegelman joined the Law School faculty as a tenured professor in the fall of 2004. His previous teaching experience includes serving as a teaching fellow in Yale’s economics department and a visiting lecturer in law at Yale, an assignment that was followed by visiting associate professorships at UConn Law in 1998 and 1999, where Professor Siegelman taught Law and Economics and Employment Discrimination. From 2000 until the time he joined the Law School faculty, he taught at Fordham Law School. During his tenure on the UConn faculty, he served as a visitor at Bar Ilan University in Israel, the University of Navarra in Spain, and the University of Michigan Law School. Since 2012, Professor Siegelman has also held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics at UConn.