Chris William Sanchirico is the Samuel A. Blank Professor of Law, Business and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (primary) and the Wharton School (secondary).

His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Basilicata, Italy, a region whose contemporaneous poverty and backwardness are depicted in Carlo Levi’s classic memoir, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1945).

His dissertation on game theory was published in one of the field’s leading journals, Econometrica.

Sanchirico’s research and teaching combine mathematical and legal-institutional sophistication to a degree that is relatively rare among economists[2] and legal scholars.

Sanchirico is one of the founding co-directors of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Tax Law and Policy.