Come join Professor Hubbard and Bigelow Fellow Ryan Sakoda to discuss their paths into academia from their perspectives at different stages of their careers. 

William H. J. Hubbard received his JD with high honors from the Law School in 2000, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. 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. From 2006 to 2011, he completed the PhD program in Economics at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty in 2011, he was a Kauffman Legal Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the Law School.

Mr. Hubbard currently serves as an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He teaches courses in civil procedure and has been an organizer for the Law and Economics Workshop. His current research primarily involves economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedure. Other research interests include family, education, and labor economics.

Ryan Sakoda is a Lecturer in Law and Bigelow Teaching Fellow. His research focuses on the empirical analysis of crime and criminal justice policy. Most recently, he has written on the use of solitary confinement and the effects of post-release supervision.

Prior to becoming a Bigelow Fellow, Ryan worked at the Boston public defender's office as a staff attorney where he represented indigent criminal defendants facing misdemeanor and felony charges from arrest through final disposition. Before his work as a staff attorney, Ryan was a Liman Public Interest Fellow, also at the Boston public defender's office, where he advised and represented clients on housing cases that arose from arrests, criminal charges, or past criminal convictions.

Ryan received a PhD in economics from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School. He also received an MSc from the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley.