Sharif Youssef is Assistant Professor of English and Legal Studies at Ashoka University. He earned his PhD and M.A. in English and American Literature at the University of Chicago. In 2018, he completed his JD (Juris Doctor) at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he earlier earned an M.s.L. (Master of Studies of Law). He holds a B.A. in French Literature and English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During law school, Dr. Youssef served as an editor on the online journal Critical Analysis of Law: An International & Interdisciplinary Law Review. Prior to coming to Ashoka, Dr. Youssef held positions as Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, and Lecturer of English at Clemson University. He is writing a book titled The Actuarial Form: Moral Hazard in the Early Novel, which is about the emergence of risk and attendant concepts such as influence, incentive, information, and capacity as figured in the use of mass casualty statistics in literature and political economy. This work is about how risk grew out of a confluence of seventeenth and eighteenth-century genres like the novel, political economy, scientific empiricism, and theology. The project seeks to explain what the law & economics movement can learn from literature. An article from the manuscript has appeared in the journal entitled Law & Literature. His writing has also appeared in Humanity, Criticism, and Modern Language Quarterly.