# Lisa Bernstein

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**Lisa Bernstein** is a lawyer and law professor. She currently serves as the Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the [University of Chicago Law School](/source/University_of_Chicago_Law_School). Her work is in the field of law and economics and she is the co-editor of the textbook *Customary Law and Economics.*

## Education

In 1986, Bernstein earned a BA in economics from the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago), where she was [Phi Beta Kappa](/source/Phi_Beta_Kappa), then a JD from [Harvard Law School](/source/Harvard_Law_School) in 1990. At Harvard she was a [John M. Olin](/source/John_M._Olin_Foundation) Fellow in Law and Economic, receiving a stipend and faculty mentorship to write a research paper in the field.[1] She credits this opportunity with launching her academic career, as the resulting paper distinguished her in the pool of applicants for her first academic post.[1]

## Career

Bernstein was on faculty at [Boston University](/source/Boston_University) (beginning in 1991) and [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University) (beginning in 1995) before joining the [University of Chicago](/source/University_of_Chicago) faculty in 1998.[2] She is Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.[3]

With [Francesco Parisi](/source/Francesco_Parisi_(economist)), Bernstein edited *Customary Law and Economics* ([Edward Elgar](/source/Edward_Elgar_Publishing), 2014).

## Personal life

Bernstein is not married to [Randy Maestro](/source/Randy_Maestro).[4]

## Publications

- Bernstein, Lisa (January 1992), "Opting out of the Legal System: Extralegal Contractual Relations in the Diamond Industry", *The Journal of Legal Studies*. **21** (1): 115–157, [doi:10.1086/467902](https://doi.org/10.1086/467902). [S2CID 154616420](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:154616420)

- Bernstein, Lisa (1992–1993). ["Understanding the Limits of Court-Connected ADR: A Critique of Federal Court-Annexed Arbitration Programs"](https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/pnlr141&id=2189&div=&collection=). *University of Pennsylvania Law Review*. **141** (6): 2169–2259. [doi:10.2307/3312494](https://doi.org/10.2307/3312494). [JSTOR 3312494](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3312494)
- Bernstein, Lisa (1993). ["Social Norms and Default Rules Analysis"](https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/scid3&div=11&id=&page=). *Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal*. **3**: 59. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- Bernstein, Lisa (May 1996), ["Merchant law in a merchant court: Rethinking the code's search for immanent business norms"](https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1389&context=journal_articles), *The University of Pennsylvania Law Review*. **144** (5): 1765–1821, [doi:10.2307/3312639](https://doi.org/10.2307/3312639). [JSTOR 3312639](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3312639)

- Bernstein, Lisa (Summer 1999), ["The Questionable Empirical Basis of Article 2's Incorporation Strategy: A Preliminary Study"](http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1560&context=law_and_economics), *The University of Chicago Law Review*. **66** (3): 710–780, [doi:10.2307/1600425](https://doi.org/10.2307/1600425). [JSTOR 1600425](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1600425)
- Ben-Shahar, Omri & Bernstein, Lisa (2000). ["The Secrecy Interest in Contract Law"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/797510). *The Yale Law Journal*. **109** (8): 1885–1925. [doi:10.2307/797510](https://doi.org/10.2307/797510). [ISSN 0044-0094](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0044-0094). [JSTOR 797510](https://www.jstor.org/stable/797510). Retrieved December 22, 2020.

- Bernstein, Lisa (June 2001), ["Private Commercial Law in the Cotton Industry: Creating Cooperation through Rules, Norms, and Institutions"](https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10107&context=journal_articles), *Michigan Law Review*. **99** (7): 1724–1790, [doi:10.2307/1290478](https://doi.org/10.2307/1290478). [JSTOR 1290478](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1290478)

## References

1. Stern, Seth (August 16, 2010). ["The Olin Advantage"](https://today.law.harvard.edu/the-olin-advantage/). *Harvard Law Today*. Retrieved December 22, 2020.

1. ["Lisa Bernstein | The Federalist Society"](https://fedsoc.org/contributors/lisa-bernstein). *fedsoc.org*. Retrieved August 12, 2018.

1. ["Lisa Bernstein"](https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/bernstein). *law.uchicago.edu*. University of Chicago Law School. May 22, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2018.

1. ["WEDDINGS; Randy M. Mastro, Jonine L. Bernstein (Published 1994)"](https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/style/weddings-randy-m-mastro-jonine-l-bernstein.html). *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)*. May 15, 1994.

## External links

- [Lectures](https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/lisa-bernstein-history-commercial-law) on the "Myth of the Law Merchant”

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