11 Facts About Ian Ayres

Ian Ayres was born on 1959 and is an American lawyer and economist.

Ian Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where they graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977.

Ian Ayres wrote an op-ed piece their senior year called "Black Like Me", a controversial piece detailing the consequences of their checking the "African- American" box for race on his PSAT, which led to consideration for academic awards.

Ian Ayres then received their JD at Yale Law School in 1986, where Ian Ayres was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Ian Ayres has taught at Northwestern University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations Cardoza Law Institute, the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Law School, and Yale University.

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Since 1994, Ayres has served as the William K Townsend professor at the Yale Law School and is a professor at the Yale School of Management.

Ian Ayres teaches antitrust, civil rights, commercial law, contracts, corporations, corporate finance, law and economics, property, and quantitative methods.

In 2006, Ian Ayres was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and currently serves as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research'.

Ian Ayres has published eight books and over 100 articles in law reviews and magazines on a variety of subjects, and has been ranked as one of the 250 most prolific and most-cited legal scholars of his generation.

In 2007, Ian Ayres co-founded StickK, a web startup enabling users to enter commitment contracts to reach personal goals.

Ian Ayres married Jennifer Gerarda Brown, the Dean of the Quinnipiac University School of Law, in 1993.