William H. J. Hubbard (he/him) is an ABF Research Professor and the Deputy Dean and the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His current research involves economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedure. His empirical research has studied courts in the United States, Taiwan, and India. He is coauthor, with Aparna Chandra and Sital Kalantry, of Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. He also serves on the editorial board of the journal Law and Development Review.
Previously, Hubbard was a Kauffman Legal Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. From 2001 to 2006, he practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice. He has also served as Editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and on the board of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies.
Hubbard’s work has appeared in many journals, including University of Chicago Law Review, Common Market Law Review, and American Law and Economic Law Review. He has also published a casebook, Civil Procedure: An Integrated Approach, intended to provide law students a strong command of doctrine.
