Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Ph.D, J.D.
Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law
Indiana University at Bloomington Maurer School of Law
Professor Dau-Schmidt is a nationally recognized teacher and scholar on the subjects of labor and employment law and the economic analysis of legal problems. His innovative teaching methods using classroom simulations have been widely featured. In 2003 Prof. Dau-Schmidt was awarded the Leon H. Wallace Award, Indiana Law's top teaching prize, and IU's Sylvia Bowman Award for Teaching Excellence. He received the Excellence in Education Award of the Industrial Relations Research Association in 2004.
Professor Dau-Schmidt is author of seven books and numerous articles on labor and employment law and the economic analysis of law, and he frequently presents papers at academic conferences and law schools across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In 1990 he received the Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools for his work on the economic analysis of the criminal law as a preference-shaping policy. Professor Dau-Schmidt is active in law school administration, most recently serving as Associate Dean of Faculty Research.
Involved in several national academic associations, Professor Dau-Schmidt was elected to the National Council of the American Association of University Professors and appointed to serve on the executive and litigation committees of that organization. He is the past chair of the Labor Law Group and has chaired the Association of American Law School sections on the Economic Analysis of Law and Socio-Economics. Professor Dau-Schmidt has been invited to teach at various European and Asian universities, including Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; and Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in Paris. He is also an affiliated faculty member with Peking University's School of Transnational Law in Shenzen, China. Professor Dauschmidt holds a Ph.D. in economics, J.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin.
