Douglas Kysar

Douglas Kysar is a Professor at Yale Law School whose scholarship focuses on product liability and environmental law, integrating legal economic analysis with insights from psychology, ecology, and philosophy. Before joining Yale, he taught at Cornell Law School, clerked for the Honorable William G. Young in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, and practiced corporate law at Foley Hoag LLP. His work, published in leading law reviews, examines regulatory approaches to environmental, health, and safety risks, as well as the role of scientific information in policy debates. He is the author of Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity and co-author of textbooks on environmental, tort, and product liability law. Kysar has held visiting positions at Harvard, NYU, UCLA, and international institutions, and he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he received the Sears Prize.