Updated January 2016
ALBERT HYUN YOON
University of Toronto Faculty of Law (416) 455-2349 84 Queen’s Park albert.yoon@utoronto.ca Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2008-present UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, ON Professor of Law & Economics; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy)
• Research: Civil Procedure; Torts; Legal Profession; Judicial Behavior; Corporate Law • Courses: Business Organizations; Civil Procedure; Torts; Law and Economics • Associate Professor, 2008-11; Professor, 2011-present
EDUCATION
1992-1999 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA Stanford Law School, Juris Doctor, 1998
• Senior Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review, Volume 49 • Co-President, Asian Pacific Island Law Students’ Association
Stanford University Department of Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy 1999
• Fields: American Politics; International Relations • Dissertation Advisor: John Ferejohn
1987-1991 YALE COLLEGE New Haven, CT
• Bachelor of Arts, English and Political Science, 1991 • Cum Laude; Academic Distinction in Political Science
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
2011 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL Chicago, IL Visiting Professor of Law
2008-09 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION New York, NY Visiting Scholar
2001-2008 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy)
• Assistant Professor, 2001-04; Associate Professor, 2004-05; Professor of Law, 2005-08
2006 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF LAW Toronto, ON Visiting Professor of Law
2004 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law
2003-2004 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ Law & Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Professor of Public Policy
1999-2001 U.C. BERKELEY Berkeley, CA Robert W. Johnson Health Policy Scholar
1998-1999 U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Columbus, OH Judicial Clerk toHon. R. Guy Cole, Jr.
1996-1998 THE RAND CORPORATION Santa Monica, CA Consultant - Criminal Justice Division
1996-1998 STANFORD LAW SCHOOL Stanford, CA Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Ford
1996 U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE San Diego, CA Summer Intern – Criminal Division
1995 SWIDLER & BERLIN Washington, D.C. Summer Associate – Litigation Department
1993-1994 STANFORD UNIVERSITY – POLITICAL SCIENCE Stanford, CA Research Assistant to Prof. Barry Weingast
1993 THE SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN San Francisco, CA Kennedy Fellow
1991-1992 NEW YORK CARES, INC. New York, NY Project Planner
1990 CLIFFORD CHANCE, SOLICITORS London, England Summer Associate
PUBLICATIONS
CIVIL PROCEDURE AND TORTS
• Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements (with JJ Prescott and Kathy Spier), 57 Journal of Law & Economics 699-746 (2014)
• Does Tort Law Deter? (with Jonathan Cardi and Randall Penfield), 9 Journal of Empirical Legal
Studies 567-603 (2012)
• FRCP 68: Lessons from New Jersey (Symposium), 57 Mercer Law Review 825-35 (2006) • A Market Solution to Civil Litigation?: An Empirical Study of Offer-of-Judgment Rules
(with Tom Baker), 59 Vanderbilt Law Review 155-96 (2006)
• Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation
in the West, 6 American Law & Economics Review 95-134 (2004)
• Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the
South, 3 American Law & Economics Review 199-227(2001)
LEGAL PROFESSION
• Cognitive Computing and the Future of the Legal Profession, 66 University of Toronto Law Journal
__ (2016), forthcoming
• Academic Tenure, 13 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies __ (2016), forthcoming • Equality Before the Law? Evaluating Criminal Case Outcomes in Canada (with Michael
Trebilcock), 53 Osgoode Hall Law Journal __ (2016), forthcoming
• The Legal Profession, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, forthcoming
• Clerks and Their Role in the Institutional Judiciary (symposium), 98 Marquette Law Review 131-49
(2015)
• No Lawyer for a Hundred Miles? Mapping the New Geography of Access to Justice in Canada (with
Jamie Baxter), 52 Osgoode Law Journal 9-57 (2014)
• Grades and Incentives: Assessing Competing GPA Measures and Post-Graduate Outcomes (with
Jeffrey Rosenthal and Michael Bailey), 39 Studies in Higher Education 1-15 (2014)
• Competition and the Evolution of Law Firms (Clifford Symposium), 63 DePaul Law Review
697-714 (2014)
• The Labor Market for New Law Professors (with Tracey George), 11 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1-38(2014)
• Editorial Bias in Legal Scholarship, 5 Journal of Legal Analysis 309-38 (2013)
• The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project: A Comparative Analysis of the 2009 Survey Data (with Michael Trebilcock and Jamie Baxter), in MIDDLE INCOME ACCESS TO JUSTICE, University of
• What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation: An Empirical Study (with Richard A.
Posner), 63 Stanford Law Review 317-49 (2011)
• The Importance of Litigant Wealth (Clifford Symposium), 59 DePaul Law Review 649-73 (2010) • Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do? (with Jesse
Rothstein), 75 University of Chicago Law Review 649-714 (2008)
• The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability (with David
Abrams), 74 University of Chicago Law Review 1145-77 (2007)
• Does Frye or Daubert Matter? A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards (with Edward Cheng),
91 Virginia Law Review 471-513(2005)
• Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics (with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Cornell Journal of
Law & Public Policy 237-64 (2001)
JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR
• Article I Judges in an Article III World (Symposium, with Tracey George), forthcoming,
17 University of Law Vegas Law Review __ (2016)
• Friendly Precedents (with Anthony Niblett), forthcoming, 56 William & Mary Law Review __
(2016)
• Judicial Tenure, forthcoming, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE LAW AND JUDICIARY
• Judicial Disharmony: A Study of Dissent (with Anthony Niblett), 42 International Review of Law &
Economics 60-71 (2015)
• A Statistical Approach to Judicial Authorship: A Case Study of Judge Easterbrook (with Kelly
Bodwin and Jeffrey Rosenthal), 37 Advances and Applications in Statistics 123-48 (2013)
• Opinion Writing and Authorship on the Supreme Court of Canada (with Kelly Bodwin and Jeffrey
Rosenthal), 63 University of Toronto Law Journal 159-92 (2013)
• Judicial Ghostwriting: Authorship on the U.S. Supreme Court (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal),
96 Cornell Law Review 1307-43 (2011)
• ‘While There’s aBreath in My Body: The Systemic Effects of Politically Motivated Retirement from
the Supreme Court (with Michael Bailey), 23 Journal of Theoretical Politics 293-316 (2011)
• Detecting Multiple Authorship of U.S. Supreme Court Legal Decisions Using Function Words (with
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal), 5 Annals of Applied Statistics 283-308 (2011)
• Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and the Paradox of Managerial Judging (with Tracey
George), 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1-64 (2008)
•
Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, 1869-2002
, 8 American Law & Economics Review 143-80 (2006)• As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure, 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 495-549 (2005)
• Love’s Labor’s Lost: Judicial Tenure among Lower Federal Court Judges, 1945-2000,
90 California Law Review 1029-60 (2003)
• The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective (Symposium, with Tracey George),
47 St. Louis Law Journal 819-34 (2003)
AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
• Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the
Income of African Americans (with Orley Ashenfelter and William Collins) (Symposium), 8 American Law & Economics Review 213-48 (2006)
• Pan-Ethnicity Revisited: Asian Indians, Asian-American Politics, and the Voting Rights Act (with
Wendy Tam Cho),10 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8-30(2005)
• The Consequences of National Parties and Corporate Money for “Political Safeguards”
CORPORATE LAW
• What Else Matters for Corporate Governance?: The Case of Bank Monitoring (with Joanna
Shepherd and Fred Tung), 88 Boston University Law Review 991-1041 (2008)
OTHER
• The Geography of Civil Legal Services in Ontario: Report of the Mapping Phase of the Ontario Civil
Legal Needs Project (with Jamie Baxter), Law Society of Upper Canada (2011)
• Mismatch in Law School (with Jesse Rothstein), National Bureau of Economic Research (2008) • Politics and Precedence: The Legislative History of Violent Offender Incarceration and
Truth-in-Sentencing in the 1994 Crime Bill and 1995 Amendments (with Peter Greenwood), RAND (1996)
CURRENT PROJECTS AND PAPERS
• Justice for Some: A Study of Small Claims Court (with Anthony Niblett)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2016 • Professor of Law & Economics (endowed chair), Toronto, ON
2015 • American Constitution Society Research Grant (with Tracey George), Washington, D.C. • Branstetter Visiting Scholar in Residence, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN
2014 • Canadian Bar – Law for the Future Fund, Ottawa, ON
2012 • Scotiabank Conference Fund, Toronto, ON • Tory Business Research Fund, Toronto, ON
2011 • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant (with Anita Anand & Frank Milne), Canada • Tory Business Research Fund, Toronto, ON
2010 • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant (with Michael Tribelcock), Canada.
Nominated for Aurora Prize.
2009 • Connaught Fellowship, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2008 • Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY • Searle Civil Justice Institute Grant (with J.J. Prescott), Chicago, IL
• American Bar Association Litigation Research Grant (with J.J. Prescott), Chicago, IL
2007 • Law School Admissions Council Research Foundation Grant, Newtown, PA • Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL
• Ronald H. Coase Prize for best paper in law and economics (with David Abrams)
2005 • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (with Jesse Rothstein), Princeton, NJ
• Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL
• Visiting Scholar in Residence, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN
2004 • Center for Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy Grant (with Ed Cheng), Boston, MA
2003 • Fellow and Visiting Professor, Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ • Benjamin Mazur Research Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
• University of Houston Law Center, Frontier Speaker, Houston, TX
2002 • Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL
• Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1999 • Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Berkeley, CA
• Stanford University – Departmental nomination, best doctoral dissertation - American Political Science Association
1993 • Donald Kennedy Public Interest Fellowship, Stanford, CA
1992 • Stanford University Graduate Fellowship (for doctoral studies), Stanford, CA
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (at law school faculty workshop unless otherwise noted)
2016 • U. of Toronto (March); U. of South Carolina (April); American Bar Foundation (May)
2015 • Cornell (March); Vanderbilt (March); Emory (April); UNLV (September); Syracuse (October)
2014 • Law Society of Upper Canada (January); Princeton LAPA Workshop (April); Marquette Symposium
on Judicial Clerks (April); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); U. of Toronto (October); Université Laval (November)
2013 • Michigan L&E Workshop (February); DePaul (April); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel
Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); SEALS (August); CLEA (September)
2012 • Boston U. (April); U. of Chicago, Judicial Behavior Workshop (May); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); SEALS (August); Wake Forest (September); CLEA (October); Syracuse (November)
2011 • U. of Georgia (February); Northwestern L&E Colloquium (April); California Western (June);
Washington U (September); Vanderbilt (October); U. of Chicago (November) 2010 • SEALS (August); CLEA (October); Georgetown L&E Workshop (October)
2009 • Russell Sage Foundation (February); Fordham (February); DePaul Clifford Symposium (April);
Duke (ERID) (April); Canadian L&E (September)
2008 • Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); Northwestern – Searle Conference (October)
2007 • Chicago-Kent (February); American Bar Foundation (February); U. of Chicago L&E Workshop
(February); NBER (March); Lewis and Clark (April); Cardozo (April); Florida State L&E Colloquium (April)
2006 • U. of Alabama (January); Mercer – Symposium (February); Washington U. – Securities Conference
(April); CLEA (October); U. of Texas CELS (October); Michigan State (November); Emory (November); Brookings, American Enterprise Symposium (December)
2005 • U. of Michigan (January); U. of Toronto L&E Colloquium (February); UCLA (March); USC L&E
Workshop (March); Loyola – Los Angeles (March); Vanderbilt Workshop (March); Northwestern (August); U. of Texas L&E Workshop (November); Duke (December)
2004 • U. of Michigan Legal Theory Workshop (February); Brooklyn (February); Princeton Law and Public
Affairs Seminar (February); Law & Society Conference(May); Cornell JELS Conference(October) 2003 • Vanderbilt (January); U. of Hawaii (February); Stanford Olin L&E Workshop (February); U. of
Illinois (May); ALEA – Toronto (September); Columbia L&E Colloquium (October); Washington U. (October); U. of Houston Law – Frontier Speaker Series (November); Princeton Industrial Relations/Labor Economics Seminar (November)
2002 • Midwest Political Science Association (April); Law & Society Conference, Vancouver(May);
Northwestern, Institute for Policy Research (May); St. Louis U. - Symposium (October) 2001 • Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (June)
2000-01 • Job Market Presentation (various law schools)
2000 • Midwest Political Science Association (April); Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (May); UC-Berkeley, Center for Law and Society (November)
1999 • Ohio State – Political Science (March)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Admitted to Practice: California (inactive); U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit; U.S. District Court, Ohio; Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) (inactive)
• Institutional Service:
• Northwestern: Chair, Judicial Clerkship Committee; Entry-Level Appointments Committee; Outside Speakers Committee
• U. of Toronto: Financial Aid Committee; Co-Founder, Osgoode-Toronto Junior Faculty Forum; Associate Dean’s Research Committee; Appointments Committee; Admissions Committee; Board – Centre of Innovation Law & Policy; Curriculum Committee
• External Service:American Bar Foundation – Research Group in Legal Diversity (2012-2014);
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Advisory Panel(2008-2009); Law and Social Inquiry, Editorial Board(2003-2008), American Association of Law Schools, Committee on Research (2006-08)
• Professional/Academic Associations: America Law Institute; American Law & Economics Association; American Political Science Association; Law & Society Association; American Bar Association
• Reviewer: American Economic Review; American Economic Journal – Applied Economics;
American Journal of Political Science; American Law & Economics Review; American Political Science Review;Business and Politics; Economic Development and Cultural Change; International Review of Law & Economics; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Journal of Korean Law; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law & Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Judicature; Journal of Legal Studies; Law & Social Inquiry; National Science Foundation; RAND; Russell Sage Foundation; Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC); U. of Toronto Law Journal
