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Daniel Markovits works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He has written articles on contract, legal ethics, distributive justice, democratic theory, and other-regarding preferences.  Markovits concentrates, in each area, on the ways in which legal orderings engage the human instinct in favor of sociability to sustain cooperation even among persons who pursue conflicting interests and endorse competing moral ideals.

Markovits has published in a wide range of academic journals, including in the Yale Law Journal, the American Economic Review, and Science.  He is author of A Modern Legal Ethics:  Adversary Advocacy for a Democratic Age and, most recently, Contract Law and Legal Methods.  He is currently writing one book on the sociology of market relations, tentatively entitled Market Solidarity, and another on economic inequality, tentatively entitled Meritocracy and Its Discontents.

After earning a B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Yale University, Markovits received a British Marshall Scholarship to study in England, where he was awarded an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the L.S.E. and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Markovits then returned to Yale to study law and, after clerking for the Honorable Guido Calabresi, joined the faculty at Yale.