Before joining our faculty in 1968, Mr. Austin worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. He teaches Contracts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Trends and Tensions in Legal Education; his writing is chiefly on antitrust law, juror surveys, and on legal scholarship. A prolific author, he has published frequently-cited articles in leading law reviews and three books: Antitrust: Law, Economics, Policy (1976), Complex Litigation Confronts the Jury System (1984), and The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (1998).

My scholarship analyzes the politics and sociology of legal education. In The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle Over Legal Education (N.Y.U. 1998), I discuss the conflict between the Liberal establishment and the Outsiders composed of feminists, critical race theorists, and a small group from the critical legal studies movement. The Outsiders seek to subvert what they see as the majoritarian tyranny of objectivity by replacing it with indeterminacy and the emotionalism of storytelling. My next book in the trilogy will deal with the feminization of the law academy while the final book will survey the cultural clash between an increasingly feminized academy and a practicing bar that exalts analysis and objectivity.