Robert A. Kagan

Robert A. Kagan is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Emanuel S. Heller Professor Emeritus of Law at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society from 1993 to 2004. Kagan is a leading scholar who works at the interface of law and politics. His research interests comprise comparative legal institutions, courts and litigation, and regulatory politics and enforcement. He has studied how wage and price controls, safety and conservation measures, and legal constraints on conditions of employment are administered and how varied rules and methods of administration affect economic development and competition. Kagan is unusually imaginative in the ways in which he blends the study of legal doctrine with the concrete study of the growth of regulatory practices and the adaptive responses of the economic actors who are the subject of regulation. In 2012 Kagan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.