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Jeffrey L Harrison

Emeritus Huber C. Hurst Eminent Scholar Chair
Emeritus Professor of Law

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Box #117625 Gainesville, FL 32611

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(352) 273-0660

About

Jeffrey Harrison is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. His expertise lies in economics, contracts, antitrust and copyright law, all areas in which he has published numerous articles, books and book chapters. Harrison’s articles have been published in the Michigan Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Texas A&M Law Review, Michigan State Law Review and many others. His casebook on Law and Economics is in the third edition. His Nutshell on Law and Economics is in its sixth edition.

His work has been cited by courts at every level including several times by the United States Supreme Court and by authors of other scholarly works.

Harrison received his B.S, M.B.A, and Ph.D degrees from the University Florida. He received his J.D. degree with high honors from the University of North Carolina.

Harrison taught economics for five years and continued to teach for three more years while attending law school at the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Law Review and Coif. He is a member of the Texas Bar. He has taught at the University of North Carolina, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, Leiden University, and the Sorbonne (Paris).

Education

J.D., University of North Carolina (high honors)
Ph.D., University of Florida
M.B.A., University of Florida
B.S., University of Florida, (high honors)

Teaching and Scholarship

Antitrust, contracts Law, copyright and Economics

Publications

Books

  • Law and Economics: Positive, Normative and Behavioral Perspectives (3d ed., West Publishing, 2013) (with Cotter)
  • Understanding Antitrust and its Economic Implications, (6th ed., Matthew Bender, 2013) (with E.T. Sullivan)
  • Law and Economics in a Nutshell, (5th ed., 2011)
  • Monopsony in Law and Economics (Cambridge, 2010 ) (with Roger Blair)
  • Law and Economics (W.W. Norton, 2008) (with J.J. Theeuves)
  • Regulation and Deregulation (2d. Ed. 2004 West Publishing Co.) (with Verkuil and Morgan)

Book Chapters

  • “Quality of Consent and Distributive Fairness: A Comparative Perspective” in Comparative Contract Law (Martin Hogg & Larry DiMatteo, eds., 2016)
  • “Private Antitrust Enforcement in the United States and the European Union: Standing and Antitrust Injury,” in Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics, (Daniel Sokol and Roger Blair, eds.) (2014) [SSRN]
  • “Complications in the Antitrust Response to Monopsony,” in Global Limits of Antitrust (Daniel Sokol & Ioannis Lianos, eds.) (Stanford U. Press, 2012) [SSRN]

Articles

  • “A Socioeconomic Approach to Antitrust: Unpacking Competition, Consumer Surplus, and Allocative Efficiency,” 49 Akron L. Rev. __ (forthcoming)
  • “Citations, Justifications, and the Troubled State of Legal Scholarship: An Empirical Study”, 3 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 45 (2015) (with Mashburn) [SSRN]
  • “(Functional) Antitrust Standing in the United States and the European Union: The Law and Economics,” 26 Fla. J. Int’l L. 271 (2014)
  • “A Nihilistic View of the Efficient Breach,” 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 167 (One of winners of SEALS competition) [SSRN]
  • “Hot News: Toward a Functional Approach,” 34 Cardozo L. Rev. 1649 (2013) (coauthored by Robyn Shelton) [SSRN]
  • “The Influence of Law and Economics Scholarship on Contract Law: Impressions: Impressions Twenty-Five Years Later,”68 N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law 1 (2012) [SSRN]
  • “Regulation, Deregulation, and Happiness,” 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 2369 (2011) [SSRN]

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.