Lisa Bernstein is a lawyer and law professor.
In 1986, Bernstein earned a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, then a JD from Harvard Law School in 1990.
At Harvard she was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economic, receiving a stipend and faculty mentorship to write a research paper in the field.
[1] She credits this opportunity with launching her academic career, as the resulting paper distinguished her in the pool of applicants for her first academic post.
[3] With Francesco Parisi, Bernstein edited Customary Law and Economics (Edward Elgar, 2014).