Nicholas Short is a political scientist and legal scholar who studies American political economy.  He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University working with Tali Mendelberg.  He completed his Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University and a summer postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Law and Economics at ETH-Zurich.  His research focuses on the law, politics, and policy of the American knowledge economy and the political economy of antitrust reform in the United States.