Nicholas Almendares
Nicholas Almendares is an associate professor of law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where his research focuses on accountability and democracy across areas of law, such as class actions, separation of powers, collective responsibility, and campaign financing.
He joined the Maurer faculty in 2020 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was program director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy. He has also taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law and Tulane University Law School and clerked for the Hon. Janis Graham Jack in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
He received his bachelor's from Amherst College, his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Dwight D. Opperman Scholar, and his Ph.D. in politics from New York University.
Nicholas Almendares
Dec 16, 2025
In “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges and the Champagne Fairs,” Paul Milgrom, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast take as their starting point a circumstance unusual for legal work: circumstances where effective enforcement does not exist. Their motivating example is the “law merchant” or lex ... ‘The Law Merchant,’ by Milgrom, North, & Weingast
