Student Fellowships and Scholars Olin Scholar
Olin Fellows 2013 Adi Leibovitch is a JSD candidate at the law school, where she is a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and a Russell Baker Scholar. Professor Omri Ben-Shahar and Professor William Hubbard are her faculty advisors; her dissertation, “Context Dependency in Judicial DecisionMaking,” includes both theoretical and empirical elements. Her research in law and economics focuses on behavioral theory, courts and litigation, and criminal procedure. She holds LLB and MBA (both magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, MA in Public Policy (summa cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University, and LLM from the University of Chicago Law School. Zhuang Liu is a JSD candidate at the law school. Professor Omri BenShahar, Professor Lior Strahilevitz, and Professor Thomas Miles are his faculty supervisors. His research interests include economic analysis of contract and empirical/experimental study of judicial behaviors. He received his LLB (2009) and Master of Law (2011) from Peking University, and his LLM from the law school (2013).
Hagay Volvovsky is a JSD candidate at the law school, where he is a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. Professor Omri Ben-Shahar and Professor Lisa Bernstein are his faculty advisers. His research focus on the intersection of law and economics and contracts. In addition to his LLM from the University of Chicago Law School, he holds an LLB and a BA in Accounting from the University of Tel-Aviv Law School and Business School, both with high honors.
Jasmine Vajzovic
Bradley Student Fellows
Rohit Nath
Nathan Jack
Megan O’Neill
Lauren C. Barnett
John Karin
Julia Schwartz
Olin Prize Established in 1986, the John M. Olin Prize in Law and Economics is awarded annually to the outstanding graduating law student in law and economics in the opinion of the Law and Economics Faculty. The recipient will express, through his other work, a dedication to outstanding scholarship and a broad understanding of the functioning of legal and economic institutions, together with historic contributions to human liberty and progress. The 2013 recipient of the Olin Prize is Robert G. Hammond for his paper, “Selling Eminent Domain Exemptions: A Mechanism to Reveal Private Values.”
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William Bucher
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