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Aditi Bagchi
Assistant Professor of Law

Aditi Bagchi
Assistant Professor of Law

Email: abagchi@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Comparative Law
  • Contracts
  • Labor Law

Bio

Aditi Bagchi's research focuses on contract and inequality. [More]

Aditi Bagchi's research focuses on contract and inequality. She is interested in the effects of socio-economic inequality on the formation and interpretation of agreements, especially employment contracts. More broadly, she explores the role that distributive justice does and should play in private law, the nature and role of intention in contract and other areas, and the comparative political economy of labor and corporate law.

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Representative Professional Positions

Penn Law - Assistant Professor (2006- )

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY (2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006)

Law Clerk to the Hon. Judge Julio Fuentes, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Newark, NJ (2004-05)

International Atomic Energy Agency, Legal Department, Vienna, Austria (Summer 2001)

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany (Summer 2000)

Representative Publications

The Accidental Promise: Remaking the Law of Misrepresented Intent, 2008 U. ILL. L. REV. 985.
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Varieties of Employee Ownership: The Unintended Consequences of Labor Law and Corporate Law, 10 U. PA. J. BUS. & EMP. L. 305 (2008).
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The Political Economy of Merger Regulation, 53 AM. J. COMP. L. 1 (2005).

Deliberative Autonomy and Legitimate State Purpose Under the First Amendment, 68 ALBANY L. REV. 815 (2005).
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Unions and the Duty of Good Faith in Employment Contracts, Note, 112 YALE L.J. 1881 (2003).

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Current & Recent Research

Current Working Papers

The Myth of Equality in the Employment Relation (work in progress).

Contract v. Promise (working paper).

Intention, Torture, and the Concept of State Crime (work in progress).

Partiality and Procedural Justice: Judicial Review of Electoral Districting and Jury Selection (work in progress).

Imperfect Rights in Private Law (working paper).

 
Aditi Bagchi

Education

  • J.D. - Yale - '03
  • M.Sc. - (Economic and Social History) Oxford - '00
  • A.B. - Harvard - '99

Courses Taught

  • Contracts
  • Intention in the Law
  • Labor Law in Comparative Perspective
  • Distributive Justice & Private Law

Research Areas

  • Contracts
  • Labor Law
  • Comparative Poltical Economy
  • Moral and Political Theory