Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityEmerson H. Tiller
Phone: (312) 503-4772
E-mail: tiller@law.northwestern.edu
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Emerson H. Tiller joined the Northwestern faculty in 2003 as a Professor of Law with a courtesy appointment at the Kellogg School of Management as Professor of Business Law. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Professor Tiller was a professor at the University of Texas, Graduate School of Business, where he also directed of the Center for Business, Technology and Law. His research has primarily focused on empirical and theoretical analyses of political forces in regulatory and judicial decision-making.
Professor Tiller has also examined the legal and strategic management of intellectual property. He has published numerous papers in law and economic journals as well as law reviews, and has won research grants and fellowships for his work (including awards from the National Academies of Science, the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, and the Bradley Foundation).
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Administrative Law
- Contracts
- Positive Political Theory
- Law, Economics and Social Science
- Intellectual Property
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Reviewing the Sentencing Guidelines: Judicial Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Reform, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW (forthcoming, 2008)
- Legal Doctrine and Political Control, JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, & ORGANIZATION, 2007
- The Business Method Patent Myth, BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL, 2003
- Judicial Partisanship and Obedience to Legal Doctrine: Whistleblowing on the Federal Courts of Appeal, YALE LAW JOURNAL, 1998
- Congressional Control of the Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Expansion of the Federal Judiciary, JOURNAL OF LAW & ECONOMICS, 1996
Recent Publications
- Policing Politics at Sentencing , 103 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1371-1398 , 2009
- Citation to Legislative History: Empirical Evidence on Positive Political and Contextual Theories of Judicial Decision Making, 38 JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 419-443 , 2009
- Understanding Collegiality on the Court , 10 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 257-271, 2008
- Reviewing the Sentencing Guidelines: Judicial Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Reform , 75 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 715-760, 2008
- Legal Doctrine and Political Control, 2007
EDUCATION
- BA, Indiana University
- JD, Indiana University
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Business)
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Business, Technology and Law, University of Texas, School of Business
- Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, Yale Law School
- Fellow, Center in Law, Economics & Organization, USC Law School
