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ALBERT H. YOON Northwestern University School of Law 357 E. Chicago Ave, Levy Mayer 272 Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 503-3497 [email protected] CURRENT EMPLOYMENT 2001-present NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL Professor of Law • Outside Appointments: Professor of Political Science (by courtesy); Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research; Faculty Associate, Center for Legal Studies • Areas of Research: Tort Reform; Corporate and Securities Law; Federal Courts; Political Parties and Federalism; Local Government Law; Law & Economics; Labor Law • Classes of Instruction: Torts; Business Associations, Advanced Topics in Civil Litigation • Committees: Judicial Clerkship; Entry-Level Appointments; Faculty Appointments; Property, Torts and Environmental External Speaker • Assistant Professor of Law, 2001-04 • Associate Professor of Law, 2004-05 EDUCATION 1992-1999 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA • Degrees: Master of Arts, June 1994; Juris Doctor, June 1998; Doctor of Philosophy, June 1999 • Fellowships: University Doctoral Studies, Olin Law & Economics, Kennedy Public Interest Stanford Law School • Senior Article Editor, Managing Board, Stanford Law Review, Volume 49 • Research Assistant: Richard Ford (law), Barry Weingast (political science) • Co-President, APILSA (Asian Pacific Island Law Students’ Association) Stanford University Department of Political Science • Major Field: American Politics; Minor Field: International Relations • Coursework: Political Economics, Game Theory, Statistics, International Relations • Dissertation: Beyond the Median: Understanding the Lower Federal Court Appointments Process (Committee: John Ferejohn, Roger Noll, Robert Weisberg, Jack Rakove, David Brady) (Departmental nomination for best doctoral dissertation award for the American Political Science Association) 1987-1991 YALE COLLEGE New Haven, CT • Bachelor of Arts, English; Political Science, June 1991 • Cum Laude; Academic Distinction in Political Science OTHER EMPLOYMENT Fall 2006 UNIVERISTY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF LAW Toronto, ON Visiting Professor of Law: Will teach Legal Process. Fall 2004 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law: Taught Torts. 2003-2004 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ Fellow and Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Program in Law and Public Affairs: Researched torts and federal judiciary; taught seminar in the Woodrow Wilson School. 1999-2001 U.C. BERKELEY Berkeley, CA Robert W. Johnson Scholar: Conducted research on civil litigation. 1998-1999 U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Columbus, OH Law Clerk: Wrote briefs and drafted opinions for the Hon. R. Guy Cole, Jr. 1996-1998 THE RAND CORPORATION Santa Monica, CA Consultant-Criminal Justice Division: Analyzed federal and state truth-in-sentencing policies. Summer 1996 U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE San Diego, CA Intern: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for judicial corruption unit. Summer 1995 SWIDLER & BERLIN Washington, D.C. Summer Associate: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for general litigation practice. Summer 1993 THE SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN San Francisco, CA Kennedy Fellow: Wrote medical-legal handbook for homeless children in the Bay Area. 1991-1992 NEW YORK CARES, INC. New York, NY Project Planner: Managed food and shelter volunteer programs in Manhattan. Summer 1990 CLIFFORD CHANCE, SOLICITORS London, England Intern: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for general corporate practice. PUBLICATIONS 2006 • A Market Solution to Civil Litigation?: An Empirical Study of Offer-of-Judgment Rules (co-authored with Tom Baker), forthcoming, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review __ (2006) • Symposium of FRCP 68: Lessons from New Jersey, forthcoming, 56 Mercer Law Review __ (2006) • Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, 1869-2002, forthcoming, 8 American Law & Economics Review __ (2006) • Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans (co-authored with Orley Ashenfelter and William Collins) (symposium on 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education), forthcoming 8 American Law & Economics Review __ (2006) 2005 • Does Frye or Daubert Matter? A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards (co-authored with Edward Cheng), 91 Virginia Law Review 471-513 (2005) • As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure, forthcoming 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 495-549 (2005) • Pan-Ethnicity Revisited: Asian Indians, Asian-American Politics, and the Voting Rights Act (co- authored with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8-30 (2005) 2004 • Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West, 6 American Law & Economics Review 95-134 (2004) 2003 • Love’s Labor’s Lost: Judicial Tenure among Lower Federal Court Judges, 1945-2000, 90 California Law Review 1029-60 (2003) 2 • The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective (Symposium, co-authored with Tracey George), 47 St. Louis Law Journal 819-834 (2003) 2002 • The Consequences of National Parties and Corporate Money for “Political Safeguards” (co- authored with Paul Frymer), 96 Northwestern University Law Review 977-1026 (2002) 2001 • Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South, 3 American Law & Economics Review 199-227 (2001) • Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics (co-authored with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 237-64 (2001) 1998 • Politics and Precedence: The Legislative History of Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth- in-Sentencing in the 1994 Crime Bill and 1995 Amendments (RAND Publication, co-authored with Peter Greenwood) CURRENT PROJECTS AND PAPERS • Mismatch in Law School (co-authored with Jesse Rothstein): studying the effect of affirmative action on law school admission, graduation, and labor choices. • The Returns to Legal Representation (co-authored with David Abrams): studying the effect of lawyer quality on outcomes in criminal cases, using a natural experiment design involving court-appointed legal counsel. • Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance (co-authored with Fred Tung): exploring whether banks who provide capital to firms have an effect on corporate governance, either through decisions by corporate officers/directors and firm performance. • The Political Economy of Debt: examining the effect of government policies that influence individuals’ willingness to incur debt, focusing on post-secondary education. • The Effect of Tort Reform on Health Services: A Case Study of C-Section (co-authored with J.J. Prescott): studying how changes in tort law over the past twenty years have affected physicians in their provision of care, examining obstetricians’ patterns of using Caesarian Section for pregnant women. • The Returns to Clerking (co-authored with Richard Posner and William Landes): exploring the contribution of law clerks to the work of the federal courts and also the benefits of clerking to the law clerks themselves in their subsequent legal careers. RECENT FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS RECEIVED 2005 • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with Jesse Rothstein), Princeton, NJ • Searle Fund for Policy Research, Chicago, IL • Visiting Scholar in Residence, March 2005 (Vanderbilt Law School), Nashville, TN 2004 • Center for Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (with Ed Cheng), Boston, MA 2003-04 • Program in Law and Public Affairs (Princeton University), Princeton, NJ 2003 • Benjamin Mazur Research Professor, Chicago, IL 2002 • Searle Fund for Policy Research, Chicago, IL • Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University), Evanston, IL 1999-2001 • Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Berkeley, CA 3 INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2006 • Washington University Law School – Law & Politics Workshop (April) (Mismatch in Law School) • Mercer University School of Law – Rule 68 Symposium (February) (Lessons from New Jersey) • University of Alabama School of Law – Faculty Workshop (January) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) 2005 • Duke University – Faculty Workshop (December) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) • University of Texas – Law & Economics Workshop (November) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) • Northwestern Law School – Summer Faculty Workshop (August) (Mismatch in Law School) • Vanderbilt University – Dean’s Lunch Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) • Loyola University, Los Angeles - Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) • University of Southern California - Law & Economics Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of- Judgment Rules I) • University of California, Los Angeles - Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) • University of Toronto Law School - Law & Economics Faculty Workshop (February) (Offer-of- Judgment Rules) • University of Michigan School of Law – Legal Theory Workshop (January) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules) 2004 • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Junior Empirical Legal Studies Conference (October), Cornell University (Senior Federal Judges) • Law & Society Conference (May), Chicago (Senior Federal Judges) • Princeton University – Law and Public Affairs Seminar (February) (Senior Federal Judges) • Brooklyn Law School – Faculty Workshop (February) (Judicial Retirement) • University of Michigan School of Law – Legal Theory Workshop (February) (Judicial Retirement) 2003 • University of Houston Law Center – Frontier Speaker Series (November) (Judicial Pensions) • Princeton University – Industrial Relations/Labor