Joshua C. Teitelbaum is the David Belding Professor of Law and a Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at Georgetown University. His research interests lie primarily in decision theory and related fields in microeconomics and their intersections with law and regulation. His work has appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among other journals. He is co-editor of the Research Handbook in Behavioral Law and Economics, an Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, and a Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Economic Research. He previously served as the Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs for the Law Center and as an Associate Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.

Before coming to Georgetown in 2009, Professor Teitelbaum clerked for Judge Richard M. Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, practiced corporate and securities law at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Scholarship

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers

Tim Friehe & Joshua Teitelbaum, Duality in Contract and Tort (working paper). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Computational Complexity and Tort Deterrence, 51 J. Legal Stud. 249-288 (2022).
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Surajeet Chakravarty, David Kelsey & Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Reverse Bayesianism and Act Independence, 203 J. Econ. Theory 1-21 (2022).
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Book Chapters & Collected Works

Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Reverse Bayesianism, Entry, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., New York: Springer 2024).
Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Expected Utility Theory, Entry, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., New York: Springer 2023).