Donald J. Boudreaux

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Donald J. Boudreaux became chairman of the department of economics at George Mason University in August 2001. He previously served as president of the libertarian think tank Foundation for Economic Education, a post he accepted in May 1997. Dr. Boudreaux also teaches Economic Foundations of Legal Studies at the George Mason University School of Law.

From 1992 to 1997, Dr. Boudreaux was professor of law and economics at Clemson University. He also served on the economics faculty at George Mason University from 1985 through 1990. During the spring 1996 semester he was a visiting fellow in law and economics at Cornell Law School.

His Ph.D., in economics, is from Auburn University and his law degree is from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Boudreaux has lectured in the United States, Latin America, and Europe on a wide variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade.

His articles have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, the Freeman, the American Spectator, the Washington Times, the Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, and several scholarly journals such as the Supreme Court Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Antitrust Bulletin, and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.