William Landes joined the faculty of the Law School in 1974. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics in the Law School from 1992 to 2009. Landes received a BA from Columbia College in 1960, and his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia in 1966. He has written widely on the application of economics and quantitative methods to law and legal institutions including torts, intellectual property, judicial behavior, legal decision making and art law. Landes was an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1975 to 1991 and of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1991 to 2000. He was president of the American Law and Economics Association from 1992 to 1993 and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. Landes also co-founded the consulting firm Lexecon (now CompassLexecon) in 1977 with Richard A. Posner and Andrew M. Rosenfield.