Matthew Spitzer

Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Law and Social Science at California Institute of Technology

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Phone: (213) 821-5449
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Matthew L. Spitzer is an expert in law and economics, broadcast regulation, and communications and mass media law. He teaches Administrative Law, Broadcast Regulation and Economic Analysis of Law. He is a visiting associate in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment with USC’s Department of Political Science.

Professor Spitzer’s publications include Public Policy Toward Cable Television, Vol. 1: The Economics of Rate Controls (with Thomas W. Hazlett; AEI Press, 1997); Seven Dirty Words and Six Other Stories: Controlling the Content of Print and Broadcast (Yale University Press, 1986); “Endowment Effects within Corporate Agency Relationships” (with Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley; Journal of Legal Studies, 2002); and “Framing the Jury” (with Daniel Kahneman and Edward J. McCaffery; in Behavioral Economics and the Law, Cambridge University Press, 2000). In addition to numerous other scholarly articles, he has published several articles relating to legal education and law school administration.

Professor Spitzer holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles; a J.D. from USC Law; and a Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to joining USC Law’s faculty in 1981, he was an associate litigator with Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh and an assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law. At USC, he has served as the director of the Olin Program in Law and Rational Choice and of the Center for Communications Law and Policy. He is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association board of governors and of the Law School Council Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. He was the William T. Dalessi Professor of Law at USC from 1987 to 2000, and served as and Carl M. Franklin Professor of Law from 2000 to 2006.

Books

• Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases, 5th ed. (with others) (Aspen, 2002).
• Public Policy Toward Cable Television, Vol. 1: The Economics of Rate Controls (with Thomas W. Hazlett) (AEI Press, 1997).
• Seven Dirty Words and Six Other Stories: Controlling the Content of Print and Broadcast (Yale University Press, 1986).

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Diamonds and Deep Breathing (Symposium V: Leadership in Legal Education)." 36 University of Toledo Law Review 191 (Fall 2004). - (Hein)
• “My Memories of David Carroll.” 78 Southern California Law Review 13 (2004). - (Hein)
• "Evaluating Valuing Empiricism." 53 Journal of Legal Education 328 (2003). - (Hein)
• "Endowment Effects within Corporate Agency Relationships" (with Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley). 31 Journal of Legal Studies 1 (2002). - (Hein)
• "Taking Over." 33 University of Toledo Law Review 213 (Fall 2001 - (Hein)
• "The Government Litigant Advantage: Implications for the Law" (with Linda R. Cohen). 28 Florida State University Law Review 391 (Fall 2000). - (Hein)
• "Framing the Jury" (with Daniel Kahneman and Edward J. McCaffery). In Behavioral Economics and the Law (Cass R. Sunstein, ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• "Digital Television and the Quid Pro Quo" (with Thomas W. Hazlett). 2 Business and Politics 115 (August 2000).
• "Judicial Auditing" (with Eric L. Talley). 29 Journal of Legal Studies 649 (2000). - (Hein)
• "A First Glance at the Constitutionality of the V-Chip Rating." In Television Violence and Public Policy (James T. Hamilton, ed.) (University of Michigan Press, 1998).
• "Freedom of Expression." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman, ed.) (Stockton Press, 1998).
• "Turner, Denver and Reno." In A Communications Cornucopia: Markle Foundation Essays on Information Policy (Roger Noll and Monroe Price, eds.) (Brookings Institution Press, 1998).
• "An Introduction to the Law and Economics of the V-Chip." 15 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 429 (1997). - (Hein)
• "Evaluating Direct Democracy: A Response." 4 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 37 (1996-1997). - (Hein)
• "Dean Krattenmaker's Road Not Taken: The Political Economy of Broadcasting in the Telecommunications Act of 1996." 29 Connecticut Law Review 353 (1996). - (Hein)

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