Rate My Professor Ronald Daniels

Daniels specializes in the intersections of law, economics, development, and public policy, including corporate and securities law, social and economic regulation, and the role of legal institutions in promoting development in third-world countries. He has authored or edited eight books, such as What Universities Owe Democracy with Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress with Michael J. Trebilcock (Elgar Press, 2008), On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina edited with Donald F. Kettl and Howard Kunreuther (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), and Rethinking the Welfare State: Government by Voucher with Michael J. Trebilcock (Routledge, 2005). Among dozens of articles, notable works include A Generation at Risk: Young Investigators and the Future of the Biomedical Workforce in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) and The Political Economy of Rule of Law Reform in Developing Countries in Michigan Journal of International Law (2004). His honors include Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), Fellow of the American Philosophical Society (2018), Member of the Order of Canada (2016), Carnegie Corporation of New York Academic Leadership Award (2015), and Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Toronto (2014). Daniels chaired a congressionally mandated National Academies commission, resulting in a 2018 report on life sciences workforce challenges.