About the Author

Seth C. Oranburg is a Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, where he teaches contract law, business associations, securities regulation, and trade secret law. He is also Director of the Program on Organizations, Business and Markets at NYU Law's Classical Liberal Institute.

Before entering academia, Oranburg practiced venture finance and emerging-company law at Fenwick & West LLP in Silicon Valley, and antitrust law at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in Washington, DC. He earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Florida.

The Safety Machine grew from the intersection of Oranburg's legal scholarship, his training in the law-and-economics tradition at Chicago, and his study of Jewish legal and philosophical thought — particularly the institutional design principles embedded in Maimonides's distinction between the material infrastructure of social order and the cultivation of human wisdom.

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