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Overview

  • Daniel Pi joined the UNH Law faculty in 2023. His research applies economic theory to legal questions across diverse subject areas including torts, contracts, criminal law, and constitutional law.

    Professor Pi was previously on the faculties of George Mason University, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, and the University of Maine, where he taught contracts, criminal law, criminal procedure, philosophy of law, feminist jurisprudence, and law and economics. He was elected by the class of 2019 to be the faculty speaker at graduation.

    Professor Pi majored in film and television production as an undergraduate at NYU. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. He is an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and holds doctorates in law and economics from the University of Bologna and the University of Hamburg. He was the 2014 recipient of the European Association of Law and Economics Göran Skogh Award.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2022 Liability for robots II: an economic analysisJournal of Institutional Economics.  18:553-568. 2022
    2022 Access to evidence in private international lawTheoretical Inquiries in Law.  23:77-96. 2022
    2022 Courts as Auditors of LegislationGeorge Mason Law Review.  29:447-447. 2022
    2021 The Limits of Behavioral Economics in Tort LawReview of Law and Economics.  17:323-347. 2021
    2020 Quantifying Reasonable DoubtRUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW.  72:455-455. 2020
    2016 Double-edged tortsInternational Review of Law and Economics.  46:43-48. 2016
    Liability for robots I: legal challengesJournal of Institutional Economics.  1-13.

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2020 Deterrence of Wrongdoing in Ancient Law 2020
    2016 The Economic Analysis of International Treaty Law 2016
    2016 The Emergence and Evolution of Customary International Law 2016
    2014 Biasing, Debiasing, and the Law 2014

    Teaching Activities

  • Constitutional Law I Taught course
  • Constitutional Law II Taught course
  • Torts Taught course
  • Constitutional Law II Taught course 2024
  • Torts Taught course 2024
  • Drugs & Weapon Trafficking Taught course 2024
  • Full Name

  • Daniel Pi