Alexander "Sasha" Volokh
My schools

• Economics Department
  • My professors: Alberto Alesina (Political Economics, Spring 2001), Robert Barro (Macro I, Fall 1998), Laurent Calvet (Micro II, Spring 1999), Marty Feldstein (Public II, Spring 2001), Ben Friedman (Macro II, Spring 1999), Drew Fudenberg (Game Theory, Spring 2001), Jerry Green (Micro I, Fall 1998), Oliver Hart (Micro I, Fall 1998; Contract Theory, Fall 1999), Caroline Hoxby (Public I & Labor, Fall 2000), Dale Jorgenson (Econometrics, Fall 1998), David Laibson (Macro II, Spring 1999), Greg Mankiw (Macro I, Fall 1998), Eric Maskin (Micro II, Spring 1999), Markus Mobius (IO II, Spring 2002), Julie Mortimer (IO II, Spring 2002), Ariel Pakes (IO I, Fall 2000), Al Roth (Micro I & II, Fall 1998 & Spring 1999), Emmanuel Saez (Public I, Fall 2000; Public II, Spring 2001), Andrei Shleifer (Political Economics, Spring 2001), Amartya Sen (Critical Perspectives, Spring 2000)
  • The snow economist, January 1999
  • Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop
  • Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar
  • Industrial Organization Workshop
  • Public Economics and Fiscal Policy Seminar
  • Economics journals
  • National Bureau of Economic Research


• Law School
  • My professors: Hanina Ben-Menahem (Jewish Law: Maimonides, Spring 2003), John Coates (Corporations, Fall 2001), Alan Dershowitz (Legal Profession, Fall 2002), Charles Donahue (English Legal History, Spring 1999; Continental Legal History, Spring 2000; Independent Study, Fall 2001; Roman Law, Fall 2002), Elena Kagan (Admin Law, Spring 2001), Louis Kaplow (Law & Econ seminar, Spring 2001; Law, Econ, & Orgs seminar, Fall 2002/Spring 2003), Daniel Meltzer (Federal Courts, Spring 2003), Martha Minow (Independent Study, Winter 2002), Peter Murray (Legal Reasoning and Argument, Fall 1999), Richard Parker (Con Law, Spring 2002), Todd Rakoff (Contracts, Fall 1999), David Rosenberg (Complex Litigation and Mass Tort, Winter/Spring 2003), Margo Schlanger (Torts, Fall 1999), Louis Michael Seidman (Crim Law, Spring 2000), David Shapiro (Civ Pro, Fall 1999), Joe Singer (Property, Spring 2000), Kip Viscusi (Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, Fall 2002), Eric Zolt (Taxation, Fall 2001)
  • Harvard Law Review, the student-edited legal journal
  • Harvard Law School Target Shooting Club
  • John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, & Business
  • Scales of Justice, Harvard Law School's most beloved a cappella group


• My extracurricular activities:
  • Scott Ashworth's Law and Contract Theory seminar, Spring 2002
  • Ivy Livingston's Latin 4, Spring 2001
  • Bridget Balint's Latin 3m, Fall 2000
  • German Department (Roberto Simanowski's German 60a, Fall 1998; Karl Guthke's German 193, Spring 1999)


• Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• HOLLIS, the Harvard library system

UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) (1989-93)

• Mathematics Department
• Some of my professors: Robert Blattner (Integral Calculus of Several Variables, Fall 1990), Rodolfo De Sapio (Real Analysis, Fall 1991), Basil Gordon (Algebra, Spring 1993), Robert Greene (Matrices & Differential Equations, Winter 1991), Nathaniel Grossman (Differential Calculus of Several Variables, Spring 1990, & Complex Analysis, Winter 1992), Sidney Port (Probability Theory I & II, Fall 1992 & Winter 1993)
• Economics Department
• Some of my professors: William Allen (Intro Macro, Winter 1990, History of Economic Thought, Fall 1991, & Independent Study, Winter 1992), Costas Azariadis (Topics in Macro, Winter 1993), Trudy Ann Cameron (Intro Micro, Winter 1990), Stephen Cauley (Intermediate Micro II, Fall 1990), Bryan Ellickson (Mathematical Methods, Fall 1991), Michael Intriligator (Econometrics, Winter 1993), Earl Thompson (Economic Problems of Underdeveloped Countries, Spring 1991), William Zame (Intermediate Micro I, Spring 1990)
• English Department
  • Some of my professors: Lynn Batten (English Lit Survey II, Spring 1990), Michael Colacurcio (American Lit 1800-65, Fall 1992), Edward Condren (English Lit Survey I, Fall 1989, & Medieval Lit, Winter 1993), LuAnn McCracken Fletcher (Victorian Novel, Spring 1992), Peter Holland (Shakespeare II, Spring 1993), Jack Kolb (English Lit Survey III, Fall 1990, & Literary Criticism, Fall 1991), Barbara Packer (Milton, Winter 1992), Georg Tennyson (Early Victorian Lit, Spring 1992)
  • Pictures from the Undergraduate English Association's trip to the Huntington Library, January 1993. Warning: Do not attempt unless you have a fast connection!
• UCLA Daily Bruin. They've published me seven or so times, so they can't be all bad.
• Westwind, "A UCLA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Writing," which I was senior editor of in in 1993, back when we were "UCLA's Journal of the Arts." See a text version of the 1995 issue and a PDF version of the 1999 issue, which I didn't work on.
• Bruin Republicans. I was membership director in 1991-92 and parliamentarian in 1992-93.
• Regents Scholars Society. I was newsletter editor in 1992-93.
• Graduation pictures. Warning: Do not attempt unless you have a fast connection!
• UCLA Club of Boston