Rebecca Haw
Assistant Professor of Law
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Email: rebecca.haw@vanderbilt.edu
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Research Interest(s)
Antitrust law, law and economics, scientific expertise, and evidence
Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
M.Phil. Cambridge University
B.S. Yale University
Biography
Rebecca Haw studies how courts and agencies gather, understand, and incorporate social scientific arguments into decision-making, using antitrust law as a laboratory. Her work traces the origin and evolution of microeconomic arguments in litigation and suggests procedural reforms that reduce the law's distorting effect on academic knowledge. Professor Haw was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School from 2009-11. Before accepting her Climenko Fellowship, she clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2008-09. Professor Haw earned her undergraduate degree in English at Yale, an M.Phil. in American literature at Cambridge University and her J.D. at Harvard Law School, where she was a research assistant to Professors Bruce Hay (2007) and Elizabeth Warren (2006) and served as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her article "Amicus Briefs and the Sherman Act: Why Antitrust Needs a New Deal," was published earlier this year in the Texas Law Review. "Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Academic Consensus in the Battle of the Experts," is forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. Professor Haw teaches Antitrust Law and a seminar, Expertise in Law.
Representative Publications
Articles
"Adversarial Economics in Antitrust Litigation: Losing Academic Consensus in the Battle of the Experts," 106 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
"Amicus Briefs and the Sherman Act: Why Antitrust Needs a New Deal," 89 Texas Law Review 1247 (2011)
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