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Michael A. Livermore is a Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2013. He teaches courses on environmental law, regulation and legal technology, and is recognized as a leading expert in cost-benefit analysis for regulatory evaluation. Livermore frequently collaborates on interdisciplinary projects with researchers across economics, computer science, neurology, and the humanities.
Livermore earned his J.D. magna cum laude from NYU Law, where he was a Furman Scholar, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as a managing editor of the Law Review. After law school, he spent a year as a fellow at NYU Law's Center on Environmental and Land Use Law before clerking for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Prior to joining UVA, he was the founding executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.
Professor Livermore's research focuses on environmental law, cost-benefit analysis, and the application of data science techniques to legal texts. He is considered one of the early scholars in the emerging field of computational legal studies, using natural language processing and other computational methods to analyze legal materials. His work bridges traditional legal scholarship with cutting-edge data science approaches, creating new methodologies for understanding law and legal institutions. Livermore hosts the Online Workshop on the Computational Analysis of Law, a global forum for scholars working at this intersection.
Livermore is a leading expert on cost-benefit analysis in regulatory contexts, authoring influential books including "Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health" (2020) and "Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health" (2008). His recent scholarship increasingly focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and law, examining how language models can be applied to legal tasks and how to measure their performance in legal reasoning.
As a prolific scholar, Livermore has published dozens of academic works in top law journals as well as peer-reviewed legal, scientific, and social science journals. His 2024-2023 publications demonstrate a clear trend toward computational legal studies, with multiple papers on language model interpretability, judicial analysis using computational methods, and the application of AI to legal tasks. These works span disciplines including legal scholarship, computer science, economics, and empirical legal studies.
Livermore is a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, reflecting his expertise in administrative law and regulatory process. His scholarship has significantly influenced debates about regulatory policy, particularly regarding environmental regulation and the proper role of cost-benefit analysis.
Throughout his career, Professor Livermore has demonstrated a commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological innovation. His early work established him as a leading voice in environmental regulation and cost-benefit analysis, while his more recent scholarship has positioned him at the forefront of the emerging field of computational legal studies. He has participated in dozens of regulatory proceedings on diverse issues ranging from climate change to prison safety, bridging academic scholarship with practical regulatory challenges.
