Bernard Black is Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University, with positions in the Pritzker School of Law, the Kellogg School of Management, Department of Finance, and the Institute for Policy Research. His research areas include health policy and medical malpractice, empirical methods for causal inference, law and finance, and international corporate governance. Recent book:  Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works; Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped (Cato Institute 2021, with David Hyman, Myungho Paik, William Sage, and Charles Silver). He is the founding Chairman of the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (2006-2016), a founding editor of the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has run, since 2010, an annual summer workshop at Northwestern. He is among the leading empirical legal scholars in the U.S., with over 150 published articles and over 31,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Areas of Expertise

• Health Law and Policy
• Medical Malpractice
• Empirical Methods for Causal Inference
• Law and Finance
• International Corporate Governance
• Corporate and Securities Law
  

Courses

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Acquisitions
• Health Law and Policy

• J.D., 1982, Law, Stanford Law School, Stanford University
• M.A. (A.B.D. in physics), 1977, Physcis, University of California, Berkeley
• A.B., 1975, Physics, Princeton University, magna cum laude

• Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor, School of Law and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2010-present
• Professor of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, 2004-2010
• Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence, School of Law, University of Texas, 2004-2010
• Professor of Law, (George E. Osborne Professor 2003-2004), Stanford Law School, Stanford University, 1998-2004
• Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia Univerisity, 1992-1998
• Associate Professor, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, 1988-1991