George L. Priest (born November 24, 1947) is an American legal scholar specializing in antitrust law. Priest has taught at the Yale Law School since 1981, where he is the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. Priest is a noted antitrust scholar, and is also the author of a wide number of articles and monographs on the subjects of product liability, tort law, insurance litigation, and settlement. Among his students at Yale was journalist Emily Bazelon.
Background
Priest is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. After graduation and prior to Yale, he worked at the University of Chicago, University at Buffalo, and UCLA. He is the father of fellow Yale Law School professor Claire Priest, Doctor of Evolutionary Biology Nicholas Priest and a son-in-law of Adolph Kiefer, a 1936 Olympics champion. He is also a member and longtime sponsor of Yale's chapter of the Federalist Society.
Works
The Common Law Process and the Selection of Efficient Rules (1977) The Selection of Disputes for Litigation (1984) My Greatest Benefactions (1986) Satisfying the Multiple Goals of Tort Law (1988) Rethinking Antitrust Law in an Age of Network Industries (2007) Ronald Coase, Firms and Markets (2014) The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History (2020)