Professor Marks Named Searle-Kauffman Fellow on Law, Innovation, and Growth

Professor Alexia Brunet Marks has been selected by Northwestern Law's Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth in Chicago as a 2009-10 Searle-Kauffman Fellow on Law, Innovation and Growth. Professor Marks is one of 16 Searle-Kauffman Fellows.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has launched an ambitious project on Law, Innovation, and Growth to foster research on the dynamic efficiency of laws and regulations that can spur economic growth. As part of this effort, the Searle Center will hold the Searle-Kauffman Institute on Law, Innovation, and Growth over the course of three meetings in academic year 2009-10.

As a Fellow, Professor Marks will attend three institutes designed to spur creativity among the participants through a series of discussions centering on articles selected by the discussion leaders. In each of the discussions, participants will focus on how insights from the articles can be extended to research on law and economic growth.