Aaron Director

Tags: Economist.

Aaron Director (September 21 1901 – September 11 2004) a celebrated professor at the University of Chicago Law School played a central role in the development of the Chicago school of economics. Together with his better known brother-in-law Nobel laureate Milton Friedman Director influenced a generation of jurists including Robert Bork Richard Posner Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

alma mater

Yale University, Lincoln High School (Portland Oregon)

birth date

1901-09-21

birth place

Staryi Chortoryisk, Russian Empire, Volhynian Governorate

death date

2004-09-11

death place

California, Los Altos Hills California

field

Law and economics

individualised GND number

131381466

influenced

Antonin Scalia, William Rehnquist, Robert Bork, Harold Demsetz, Richard Posner

influenced by

Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase

institution

Hoover Institution, University of Chicago Law School