Rate My Professor Peter Hammer

Peter J. Hammer serves as Professor of Law and the A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair at Wayne State University Law School, a position he has held since joining the faculty in 2003. He is also the Faculty Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights. Hammer holds B.A., B.A., and B.S. degrees from Gonzaga University, as well as a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. Before Wayne State, he taught at the University of Michigan Law School for eight years. Earlier in his career, Hammer clerked for the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin, former chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced as an associate in the Los Angeles office of O'Melveny & Myers, focusing on antitrust, health law, and expert economic testimony.

Hammer's scholarship focuses on domestic health law and policy, international public health and economic development, economic and social issues impacting Detroit, human rights, law, and development in Cambodia, the role of global health initiatives in health system development, and international law and global child health. He received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Notable publications include "No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr." (Wayne State University Press, 2022); "Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith" (editor, Wayne State University Press, 2013); "Change and Continuity at the World Bank: Reforming Paradoxes of Economic Development" (Edward Elgar, 2013); "Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care" (lead editor, Duke University Press, 2003); and numerous peer-reviewed articles such as "Antitrust, Health Care Quality, and the Courts" (Columbia Law Review, 2002, with William M. Sage), "Critical Issues in Hospital Antitrust Law" (Health Affairs, 2003, with William M. Sage), and "Contracting Illness: Reassessing International Donor-Initiated Health Service Experiments in Cambodia's Indigenous Periphery" (Southeast Asian Research, 2013, with Ian G. Baird).