Background
Sanchirico was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in Wayne, New Jersey where he attended the Wayne public schools.
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He earned his Juris Doctor at Yale Law School and his Doctor of Philosophy (in economics) at Yale University, where his studies focused on game theory, mathematical economics, and public economics.
Career
He is a leading expert on tax law and policy.
Sanchirico earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Princeton University where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and was named one of two Woodrow Wilson Scholars in his senior year. 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 and legal scholars.
He has published extensively in preeminent journals in the fields of tax law and policy, evidence, procedure, law and economics, public economics, game theory, and mathematical economics.
He has presented his work widely at law schools, economics departments, business schools, and statistics departments. His course offerings include Federal Income Taxation, Taxation of Business Entities, International Taxation, Evidence, Mathematical Game Theory (Doctor of Philosophy level), Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical Methods (Doctor of Philosophy level), and Law and Economics.
In 2009 Sanchirico visited Universita di Bologna where he was Visiting Scholar at Louisiana Facolta di Economia, Senior Fellow at Istituto di Studi Avanzati, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar. Sanchirico is one of the founding Company-Directors of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Tax Law and Policy.
He is also the founding editor of two eJournals, Evidence and Evidentiary Procedure and Economic Inequality and the Law.
Membership
Sanchirico has served as the Chair of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association.
