About
Cortelyou Churchill Kenney, J.D., is an assistant professor at The University of Tulsa College of Law and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Kenney’s research problematizes game theorist John Nash’s support of efficiency and self interest. Her popular and original research uses methods from physics and mathematics to create innovations in game theory that promote generosity and reaches new answers in game theory games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Chicken.
Kenney’s scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Loyola Los Angeles Law Review and the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. She is currently working on two pre-prints intended for scientific publications, and law review versions of these pre-prints.
Previously, Kenney was a clinician at Cornell Law School and Yale Law School and was a Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School. She also worked at the National Women’s Law Center and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Kenney clerked for Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the late Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York. She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she received the Philip & Barbara Kaplan Scholarship for academic excellence and commitment to public interest.
Awards and Honors
- “Who’s Who in America” 2024-25
Education
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- A.B., Dartmouth College
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Game theory
- Law and economics
- Physics and law
- Law and mathematics
- Torts
- First Amendment