Todd Zywicki

Dr. Todd Zywicki is a Senior Scholar and Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University as well as George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. 

He holds a JD from the University of Virginia, an MA in Economics from Clemson University, and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. He specializes in bankruptcy, contracts, commercial law, business associations, law and economics, and public choice and the law.

He is the author of Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (West Academic Publishing, 2009) coauthored with Maxwell Stearns and Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic Publishing, 2018) coauthored with Maxwell Stearns and Thomas Miceli. 

Zywicki has testified before Congress on consumer bankruptcy and consumer credit, and he frequently commentates in print and broadcast media, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, the Atlantic, Nightline, NBC Nightly News, PBS Newshour, Fox Business, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg News, BBC, ABC Radio, and The Diane Rehm Show. He writes for the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy and is an editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.

Previously, Zywicki was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and taught at Vanderbilt University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Boston College Law School, and Mississippi College School of Law.

For further publications by Zywicki, visit his University website.