Daniel M. Klerman is the Edward G. Lewis Professor of Law and History at USC Law School, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Property, Concepts in American Law, and English Legal History. He has been a member of the faculty since 1998 and received the Student Bar Association (SBA) Faculty Appreciation (“Outstanding Professor”) Award in 2014. Klerman's scholarship concentrates on Civil Procedure, English Legal History, and Law and Economics, with notable publications including "Forum Selling" and "Settlement Around the World: Settlement Rates in the Largest Economies."

His expertise has been recognized with the Sutherland Prize from the American Society for Legal History and the David Yale Prize from the Selden Society. Klerman served on the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association and as co-president of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis and sits on the editorial boards of Law & History Review and the Journal of Legal Analysis.

Klerman is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and served as USC Law’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2009-2011. He holds a BA from Yale University and a JD and PhD in History from the University of Chicago. Before joining USC, he clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court. In addition to USC Gould School of Law, he has taught at various institutions, including the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, and Hebrew University.