Barak Richman

Barak Richman is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of Business Law at the George Washington University Law School and is a Senior Scholar at the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. For 2024, he served as Special Counsel for Competition Policy in the Office of General Counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services.  From 2003-2023, he was a Professor of Law and Business at Duke University, where he was on the Health Sector Management faculty at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.  He was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 and has had visiting appointments at Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford.

Professor Richman’s primary research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy. His work has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. His book Stateless Commerce was published by Harvard University Press in 2017, and he is a coauthor of the textbook Internet and Telecommunications Regulation, published by Carolina Press.

Richman has an A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University, a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Laureate in Economics Oliver Williamson. He served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and from 1994-1996 he handled international trade legislation as a staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, then chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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