David A. Friedman

Assistant Professor of Law

• J.D. Yale University
• B.A. Yale College, cum laude, with distinction in economics

Curriculum Vitae

dfriedma@willamette.edu

Professor David A. Friedman teaches commercial law, business law and dispute resolution. He joined the Willamette law faculty in 2008. Previously, he was a visiting professor in the Clinical Law Program. He concentrates his research in behavioral law and economics and consumer law. Professor Friedman teaches Contracts, Sales, Business Organizations and Advanced Negotiation. Willamette law students selected him as Outstanding Professor of the Year three times.

Prior to joining Willamette, Professor Friedman was a management consultant for Monitor Group, a global strategy consultancy founded by professors from Harvard Business School. For nearly a decade, he specialized in advising Global Fortune 1000 companies, private equity firms and nonprofit organizations on transactional and other strategic matters. In addition to multinational companies in the telecommunications, financial services, professional services and transportation sectors, his past clients include a venture philanthropy firm, a nonprofit manager of endowments for small educational institutions, and a nonprofit seeking to impact urban public school leadership nationally. Subsequent to working at Monitor Group, Professor Friedman founded his own solo practice, which advised a private equity firm on a major potential acquisition and a political campaign on crime and youth policy.

While attending law school at Yale University, he served as a teaching assistant to James Tobin, who won the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Friedman also was named a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

Professor Friedman has served on the executive committee of Yale Law School Association and is active with the alumni schools committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Oregon.

He is a member of the Oregon and New York state bars.

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Publications

• Bringing Order to Contracts Against Public Policy, 39 FLA. ST. U.L. REV. _ (2012).
• Debiasing Advertising: Balancing Risk, Hope and Social Welfare, 19 J.L. & Pol'y 539 (2011).
• Free Offers: A New Look, 38 New Mexico L. Rev. 49 (2008).
• Reinventing Consumer Protection, 57 DePaul L. Rev. 45 (2007).
• The Administrative and Compliance Cost of Manual Highway Toll Collection: Evidence from Massachusetts and New Jersey (with Joel Waldfogel) 48 National Tax Journal, 217-28 (June 1995).

Other Writings

• Quintin Johnstone Bridges the Ages, Willamette Lawyer (Spring 2010).
• Op-Ed, For Whom the Bridge Tolls? Hopefully, Nobody, Oregonian (Dec. 14, 2009).
• Op-Ed, Don't Panic Over Beer Giant's Future, Statesman-Journal (Salem, Ore.) (July 29, 2008).