Jolls has criticized the traditional economic approach to law that supposes that people always act rationally-which Jolls said is not always true.
Jolls became interested in employment and behavioral law when she was a student at HLS. She disagreed with the prevailing economic view at the time, which she said advocated a non-interventionist and conservative approach to law.
"Everyone ridiculed economic analysis in law school because of its assumed conservative political orientation," she said. "I wanted a more unbiased view."
In 1995, Jolls earned a doctorate in economics from MIT, and has applied that knowledge to her study of law.
"In some sense it was a calling. There was a whole perspective that was missing," she said.
Next year, Jolls will teach courses on employment law and a first-year class on contracts.
She will also serve as a national fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research next year.
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