Three Law School Faculty Receive Named Professorships
Baude, Hubbard, Nou Among 16 UChicago Faculty Awarded New Designations
Three Law School faculty members have received named professorships.
- William Baude, a constitutional law scholar and faculty director of the Law School’s Constitutional Law Institute, has been named the Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor.
- William Hubbard, a scholar with expertise in litigation, court, and civil procedure, has been named the Harry N. Wyatt Professor.
- Jennifer Nou, a scholar with expertise in administrative and regulatory law, has been named the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor.
All three appointments took effect on July 1.
William Baude
Baude teaches federal courts, constitutional law, conflict of laws, and elements of the law. His current research interests include the doctrine of standing, and different aspects of the Fourteenth Amendment, relating to both unenumerated rights and disqualification of officials.
Among his other activities, Baude is the co-editor of two textbooks: “The Constitution of the United States” and “Hart and Wechsler's Federal Courts in the Federal System.” He’s an affiliated scholar at the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism; a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance; a member of the American Law Institute; an occasional blogger at The Volokh Conspiracy; and a podcaster on “Divided Argument.” He also recently served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.
William Hubbard
Hubbard’s current research primarily involves economic analysis of litigation, courts and civil procedure. He has published widely in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the casebook “Civil Procedure: An Integrated Approach” (2021) and is co-author of the forthcoming “Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India” (2023). He is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation and has been Editor of The Journal of Legal Studies since 2014.
Hubbard received his J.D. 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 2001-2006, he practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice. During 2006-2011, he completed the Ph.D. 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.
Jennifer Nou
Nou’s main research interests are in administrative law, executive branch dynamics, regulatory policy and constitutional separation-of-powers. She is currently a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and a senior advisor at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Nou is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and received an MPhil in Politics from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. After graduation, she was a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court.