Adam Chilton is the Dean and the Howard G. Krane Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Adam also currently serves as an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics.

Adam is an empirical law and economics scholar whose research has focused on comparative law, international law, and the legal profession. 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 studying constitutional reform efforts around the world, the development and enforcement of competition law regimes around the world, the use of Bilateral Labor Agreements to promote international labor migration, the quality of life in informal urban communities, and ways to improve legal education, the legal academy, and the legal profession.

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.