Adam Chilton is the Howard G. Krane Professor of Law and the Walter Mander Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. Adam's primary research interests lie at the intersection of international law, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. Adam currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.
Adam's primary research interests lie at the intersection of comparative law, international law, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. For example, Adam’s book, co-authored with Mila Versteeg, How Constitutional Rights Matter, uses a variety of empirical methods to explore the impact of including rights into written constitutions on their protection around the world. Adam’s book, co-authored with Kyle Rozema, Trial by Numbers: A Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence, provides an introduction to empirical research methods that is specifically designed for law students, lawyers, and other members of the legal profession.
Adam also has ongoing projects focused on documenting the development and enforcement of competition law regimes around the world, studying how Bilateral Labor Agreements can be used to promote international labor migration, and researching how to improve the quality of life in informal urban communities.
In addition to these international and comparative projects, other topics Adam researches include reforming the United States Supreme Court, measuring the ideology of the American legal profession, studying the determinates judicial decision making, and improving legal education and the legal academy.
Adam received a BA and MA in Political Science from Yale University. After college, Adam worked as a management consultant for BCG. He then went to Harvard University, where he earned a JD and a PhD in Political Science. Before joining the faculty, Adam taught at the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law.