Research Expertise and Interest

financial regulation, consumer finance, antitrust and competition policy, law and economics, distributive justice

Research Description

Prasad Krishnamurthy joined the Berkeley Law Faculty in 2010. Prasad is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as Essays Editor on the Yale Law Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) in Hyderabad, India as a Yale Law School Reubhausen Fellow and at the University of Chicago Law School and Stanford Law School as a visiting professor. He has served on the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovations's Debt Collection Advisory Council and on the expert panel for mergers for the California Law Revision Commission. He has served as an adviser to the Office of Financial Instiution Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department. Prior to law school, Prasad was a social worker at Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and taught mathematics at Dominguez High School in Compton, CA.

Prasad’s research and teaching interests include financial regulation, consumer finance, antitrust and competition policy, law and economics, and distributive justice. Prasad’s research seeks to empirically analyze legal rules and institutions and to understand the implications of empirical research for law and policy. His publications can be found on his personal webpage.