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Robert Mikos

Robert Mikos

Contact Information

ramikos@ucdavis.edu
530-752-5748
Rm. 2091 King Hall

Education

• A.B., Cum Laude Public and International Affairs, Princeton University 1995
  
• J.D., Summa Cum Laude, University of Michigan Law School 2001

Curriculum Vitae 

Professor of Law

Professor Mikos earned his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. At Michigan, he served as an articles editor of the Michigan Law Review and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, the law school's highest honor.  After graduation, he served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Mikos then returned to the University of Michigan Law School as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics before joining the UC Davis law faculty.

Special Interests

Federalism, Criminal Law And Procedure, Law And Economics

Selected Career Highlights

• Professor and John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, University of Michigan Law School, 2002-2003
• Law Clerk for the Honorable Michael Boudin, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2001-2002
• Senior Associate and Principal, The Parthenon Group (strategy consulting firm), 1997-1998

Selected Publications

• Do Citizens Care About Federalism? An Experimental Test, (forthcoming 2007)
• “Eggshell” Victims, Private Precautions, and the Societal Benefits of Shifting Crime, 105 Michigan Law Review ____ (forthcoming 2006)
• The (Legal) Value of Chance: Distorted Measures of Recovery in Private Law, 7 American Law and Economics Review 484 (Fall 2005) (with Omri Ben-Shahar)(PDF)
• Enforcing State Law in Congress's Shadow, 90 Cornell Law Review 1411 (September 2005)