Professor Bronsteen joined the Loyola faculty in 2005. His research applies the
findings of hedonic psychology (the study of what makes people happy) to civil
settlement, criminal punishment, and regulatory decisionmaking. His articles have been
published in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the
California Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal, among many others. 

After graduating from law school, Professor Bronsteen clerked for Chief Judge Douglas
Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was then an associate at
Goldstein & Howe in Washington, D.C., where he primarily worked on the litigation of
U.S. Supreme Court cases. Before coming to Loyola, he spent two years as a Bigelow
Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. 

Education: 

A.B., Harvard, 1997 

J.D., Yale, 2001 

Courses Taught: 

Class Actions Seminar 

Criminal Law 

Federal Courts 

Federal Criminal Law 

Happiness Seminar 

Law and Psychology 

Articles

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Retribution and the Experience of Punishment (with Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan S. Masur), California Law Review (2012)
 

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Retribution and the Experience of Punishment., California Law Review (2010)
 

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Well-Being Analysis, Georgetown Law Review (2010)
 

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Happiness and Punishment., University of Chicago Law Review (2009)
 

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Retribution's Role., Indiana Law Journal (2009)