Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityHenry Butler
Executive Director, Searle Center
Phone: (312) 503-0290
E-mail: h-butler@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Henry N. Butler, a leading public policy analyst and law and economics specialist who has devoted much of his career to improving the country’s civil justice system through judicial education programs, has been named the first executive director of the Searle Center at Northwestern University School of Law. The new center is located on the fifth floor of the Rubloff Building.
He comes to Northwestern from Chapman University where he was the James Farley Professor of Economics in the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics and a professor of law. Prior to his tenure at Chapman, Butler was the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Kansas. Before that he was a professor at George Mason University School of Law, and he spent one year as a John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He received a PhD in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a JD from the University of Miami School of Law. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Richmond, Virginia.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Antitrust
- Corporate Governance
- Law and Economics
- Health Care Policy
- Federalism
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications
- Consumer Harm Acts? An Economic Analysis of State Consumer Protection Acts
- A Single-License Approach to Regulating Insurance
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: What We’ve Learned; How to Fix It, 2006
- Economic Analysis for Laywers, 2006
- The Contractual Theory of the Corporation, George Mason University Law Review , 1989
EDUCATION
- BA, University of Richmond
- JD, University of Miami
- PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- James Farley Professor of Economics, Professor of Law, Chapman University
- Dean, The Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University
- Koch Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics, Director of the Law and Organizational Economics Center, Director of the MBA Program, University of Kansas
- Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Director of the Law and Economics Center, George Mason University
- John M. Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics, University of Chicago
- Assistant Professor of Management, Texas A&M University
