Max Schanzenbach is the Seigle Family Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. (economics) from Yale University. Schanzenbach joined Northwestern as an assistant professor of law in 2003, received tenure in 2006, and was named the Seigle Family Professor of Law in 2015. From 2010 to 2013, Schanzenbach was Director of the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University. From 2011 to 2016 Schanzenbach was the co-editor-in-chief of the American Law and Economics Review.
Schanzenbach writes in the law and economics tradition and has published on higher education from that perspective, covering areas including the university-student contract, the permissibility of university endowment divestment, and the regulation of student speech. He has published widely in top law reviews and economics journals. He has placed op-eds concern higher education in the Wall Street Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, Bloomberg, and the Chicago Tribune.