Mercuro, Nicholas 1945-

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Mercuro, Nicholas 1945-

PERSONAL:

Born March 11, 1945, in East Orange, NJ; son of Alphonse and Josephine Mercuro. Education: Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 1967; Seton Hall University, M.B.A., 1970; Michigan State University, Ph.D., 1977. Politics: Independent.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Okemos, MI. Office—College of Law, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. E-mail—mercuro@law.msu.edu.

CAREER:

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, member of economics and finance faculty, 1976-1996; Michigan State University, East Lansing, John A. Hannah Visiting Professor of Integrative Studies and Jeffrey N. and Kathryn C. Cole Professor at Honors College, 1996-97, professor of law in residence, 2002—, faculty member of James Madison College, 2005—, and coordinator of law and economics programs in Germany and England. University of Vienna, visiting professor, 1986-87, 1995; Tulane University School of Law, member of adjunct faculty, 1988-96; Free University of Berlin, teacher and researcher, 1993; University of Hamburg, research associate of Erasmus Program in Law and Economics, 1996; Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, guest professor, 2000-01; Université de Droit, d'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille, guest faculty member, 2003. Kreisky Commission on Employment Issues in Europe, member, 1987-89; City of New Orleans, chair of District Attorney's Commission on Illegal Drug Activity, 1988-89; Orleans Parish of New Orleans, chair of Drugs off the Street Committee on Prison Overcrowding, 1991-92; Voters Information League, New Orleans, founding board member, 1992-97; Michigan Environmental Science Board, member, 2004-09. Military service: U.S. Army Reserve, 1970-76.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fulbright scholar in Germany, 1993.

WRITINGS:

(With Timothy P. Ryan) Law, Economics, and Public Policy, JAI Press (Greenwich, CT), 1984.

(Editor) Law and Economics, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 1989.

(Editor) Taking Property and Just Compensation: Law and Economics Perspectives of the Takings Issue, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA), 1992.

(Editor, with Franklin Lopez and Kristian Preston) Ecology, Law, and Economics, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1994, 2nd edition (sole editor), 1997.

(With Steven G. Medema) Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism and Beyond, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1997, 2nd edition, 2006.

(Editor, with Warren J. Samuels) Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property, JAI Press (Greenwich, CT), 1999.

(Editor, with Margaret Oppenheimer) Law and Economics: Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2005.

(Editor) Law and Economics, five volumes, Routledge (London, England), 2007.

Founder and editor, "The Economics of Legal Relationships" book series, 1994—. Founder and editor of the annual journal International Review of Comparative Public Policy, 1989-2003; coeditor of special issue, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004. Contributor to periodicals, including Research in the History of Economic Thought & Methodology, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, FED TECH, Social Science Quarterly, International Review of Law and Economics, Land Economics, and Social Science Quarterly.