Daniel Markovits

Daniel Markovits (born August 4, 1969) is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at the Yale Law School.^[1]

He delivered the 2015 commencement speech at the Yale Law School, in which he argued that “meritocracy now constitutes a modern-day aristocracy, one might even say, purpose-built for a world in which the greatest source of wealth is not land or factories but human capital, the free labor of skilled workers.”^[2] His forthcoming book, titled Snowball Inequality: Meritocracy and the Crisis of Capitalism, develops this argument.

Major works

• 2008, A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age
• 2012, Contract Law and Legal Methods (Foundation Press)
• 2015, "The Distributional Preferences of an Elite," Science^[3]
• Snowball Inequality: Meritocracy and the Crisis of Capitalism (under contract at Harvard University Press)

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