Mitchell Chervu Johnston's research interests include an analysis of private law from an economics perspective, with a particular focus on remedies. His current work studies the effects of positive transaction costs on networks of transactions as well as sub-compensatory damages as a potential solution to recurring problems in tort law.
Johnston previously completed a fellowship with Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law. The fellowship was an academic investigation of common law subjects such as property, contracts, torts, and related subjects such as intellectual property and commercial law.
Johnston received his J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.S.E. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University. Following his graduation from law school he clerked for Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as an associate in the Supreme Court and Appellate practice at Mayer Brown LLP. Prior to law school he worked at McKinsey & Company.
