Max M. Schanzenbach is an American legal scholar and the Seigle Family Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, United States.
[1] Schanzenbach joined the Northwestern University faculty in 2003 as an assistant professor of law.
[1] A 2007 study co-authored by Schanzenbach and Robert H. Sitkoff argued that trustees responded appropriately to the introduction of so-called prudent investor laws.
[3][4] Also in 2007, Schanzenbach and Emerson Tiller (who is also a professor at Northwestern) co-authored a study showing that judges appointed by Republicans tend to give harsher sentences for street crime, while those appointed by Democrats tend to punish white-collar criminals more severely.
[8] As of 2015, they live in the North Shore area of Chicago, Illinois.