E-mail: lorluis@umich.edu
University of Michigan Law School
1220 White Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
I am a Research Scholar at the Empirical Legal Studies Center of the University of Michigan Law School, where I am also a S.J.D. Candidate. Prior to joining Michigan Law, I was a Research Fellow at the University of Trento, where I obtained my Ph.D. and J.D.
My research interests revolve around contracts, employment and labor law, antitrust and IP, business law and public policy, with a particular focus on monopsony, labor mobility, and franchising. I study how actors, particularly firms, use covenants in business and employment contracts to protect their intellectual property and other interests and the effects of those strategies on employees, markets, and social welfare. My aim is to inform how we regulate these strategies and activities to reduce abuse and anticompetitive losses while enhancing welfare, investment, and innovation.
RECENT WORK 📣
Noncompete Agreements in a Rigid Labor Market: The Case of Italy (joint with T. Boeri & A. Garnero) is out in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization: