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
David A. Hyman, Jing Liu & Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Does the 1L Curriculum Make a Difference? (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).
Forthcoming Works - Book Chapters & Collected Works
Joshua Teitelbaum, Expected Utility Theory, in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello eds., New York: Springer forthcoming).
In The News
February 19, 2016
"GULC Launches Williams Research Professorships," coverage in The Hoya, Feberuary 19, 2016, featuring Dean William M. Treanor, Associate Dean for Research Josh Teitelbaum, Professors Kristin Henning and John Mikhail, and Agnes Williams.