University of Toronto Faculty of Law (416) Queen s Park albert.yoon@utoronto.ca Toronto, ON M5S 2C5

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1 Updated January 2016 ALBERT HYUN YOON University of Toronto Faculty of Law (416) Queen s Park albert.yoon@utoronto.ca Toronto, ON M5S 2C5 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT 2008-present UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, ON Professor of Law & Economics; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) Research: Civil Procedure; Torts; Legal Profession; Judicial Behavior; Corporate Law Courses: Business Organizations; Civil Procedure; Torts; Law and Economics Associate Professor, ; Professor, 2011-present EDUCATION STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA Stanford Law School, Juris Doctor, 1998 Senior Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review, Volume 49 Co-President, Asian Pacific Island Law Students Association Stanford University Department of Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy 1999 Fields: American Politics; International Relations Dissertation Advisor: John Ferejohn YALE COLLEGE New Haven, CT Bachelor of Arts, English and Political Science, 1991 Cum Laude; Academic Distinction in Political Science OTHER EMPLOYMENT 2011 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL Chicago, IL Visiting Professor of Law RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION New York, NY Visiting Scholar NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) Assistant Professor, ; Associate Professor, ; Professor of Law, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF LAW Toronto, ON Visiting Professor of Law 2004 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ Law & Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Professor of Public Policy U.C. BERKELEY Berkeley, CA Robert W. Johnson Health Policy Scholar U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Columbus, OH Judicial Clerk to Hon. R. Guy Cole, Jr THE RAND CORPORATION Santa Monica, CA Consultant - Criminal Justice Division STANFORD LAW SCHOOL Stanford, CA Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Ford

2 1996 U.S. ATTORNEY S OFFICE San Diego, CA Summer Intern Criminal Division 1995 SWIDLER & BERLIN Washington, D.C. Summer Associate Litigation Department STANFORD UNIVERSITY POLITICAL SCIENCE Stanford, CA Research Assistant to Prof. Barry Weingast 1993 THE SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN San Francisco, CA Kennedy Fellow NEW YORK CARES, INC. New York, NY Project Planner 1990 CLIFFORD CHANCE, SOLICITORS London, England Summer Associate PUBLICATIONS CIVIL PROCEDURE AND TORTS Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements (with JJ Prescott and Kathy Spier), 57 Journal of Law & Economics (2014) Does Tort Law Deter? (with Jonathan Cardi and Randall Penfield), 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2012) FRCP 68: Lessons from New Jersey (Symposium), 57 Mercer Law Review (2006) A Market Solution to Civil Litigation?: An Empirical Study of Offer-of-Judgment Rules (with Tom Baker), 59 Vanderbilt Law Review (2006) Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West, 6 American Law & Economics Review (2004) Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South, 3 American Law & Economics Review (2001) LEGAL PROFESSION Cognitive Computing and the Future of the Legal Profession, 66 University of Toronto Law Journal (2016), forthcoming Academic Tenure, 13 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2016), forthcoming Equality Before the Law? Evaluating Criminal Case Outcomes in Canada (with Michael Trebilcock), 53 Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2016), forthcoming The Legal Profession, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, forthcoming Clerks and Their Role in the Institutional Judiciary (symposium), 98 Marquette Law Review (2015) No Lawyer for a Hundred Miles? Mapping the New Geography of Access to Justice in Canada (with Jamie Baxter), 52 Osgoode Law Journal 9-57 (2014) Grades and Incentives: Assessing Competing GPA Measures and Post-Graduate Outcomes (with Jeffrey Rosenthal and Michael Bailey), 39 Studies in Higher Education 1-15 (2014) Competition and the Evolution of Law Firms (Clifford Symposium), 63 DePaul Law Review (2014) The Labor Market for New Law Professors (with Tracey George), 11 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1-38 (2014) Editorial Bias in Legal Scholarship, 5 Journal of Legal Analysis (2013) The Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project: A Comparative Analysis of the 2009 Survey Data (with Michael Trebilcock and Jamie Baxter), in MIDDLE INCOME ACCESS TO JUSTICE, University of Toronto Press, Ch. 2, (2012) 2

3 What Judges Think of the Quality of Legal Representation: An Empirical Study (with Richard A. Posner), 63 Stanford Law Review (2011) The Importance of Litigant Wealth (Clifford Symposium), 59 DePaul Law Review (2010) Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do? (with Jesse Rothstein), 75 University of Chicago Law Review (2008) The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability (with David Abrams), 74 University of Chicago Law Review (2007) Does Frye or Daubert Matter? A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards (with Edward Cheng), 91 Virginia Law Review (2005) Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics (with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy (2001) JUDICIAL BEHAVIOR Article I Judges in an Article III World (Symposium, with Tracey George), forthcoming, 17 University of Law Vegas Law Review (2016) Friendly Precedents (with Anthony Niblett), forthcoming, 56 William & Mary Law Review (2016) Judicial Tenure, forthcoming, OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE LAW AND JUDICIARY Judicial Disharmony: A Study of Dissent (with Anthony Niblett), 42 International Review of Law & Economics (2015) A Statistical Approach to Judicial Authorship: A Case Study of Judge Easterbrook (with Kelly Bodwin and Jeffrey Rosenthal), 37 Advances and Applications in Statistics (2013) Opinion Writing and Authorship on the Supreme Court of Canada (with Kelly Bodwin and Jeffrey Rosenthal), 63 University of Toronto Law Journal (2013) Judicial Ghostwriting: Authorship on the U.S. Supreme Court (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal), 96 Cornell Law Review (2011) While There s a Breath in My Body: The Systemic Effects of Politically Motivated Retirement from the Supreme Court (with Michael Bailey), 23 Journal of Theoretical Politics (2011) Detecting Multiple Authorship of U.S. Supreme Court Legal Decisions Using Function Words (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal), 5 Annals of Applied Statistics (2011) Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and the Paradox of Managerial Judging (with Tracey George), 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1-64 (2008) Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, , 8 American Law & Economics Review (2006) As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure, 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2005) Love s Labor s Lost: Judicial Tenure among Lower Federal Court Judges, , 90 California Law Review (2003) The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective (Symposium, with Tracey George), 47 St. Louis Law Journal (2003) AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans (with Orley Ashenfelter and William Collins) (Symposium), 8 American Law & Economics Review (2006) Pan-Ethnicity Revisited: Asian Indians, Asian-American Politics, and the Voting Rights Act (with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8-30 (2005) The Consequences of National Parties and Corporate Money for Political Safeguards (with Paul Frymer), 96 Northwestern University Law Review (2002) 3

4 CORPORATE LAW What Else Matters for Corporate Governance?: The Case of Bank Monitoring (with Joanna Shepherd and Fred Tung), 88 Boston University Law Review (2008) OTHER The Geography of Civil Legal Services in Ontario: Report of the Mapping Phase of the Ontario Civil Legal Needs Project (with Jamie Baxter), Law Society of Upper Canada (2011) Mismatch in Law School (with Jesse Rothstein), National Bureau of Economic Research (2008) Politics and Precedence: The Legislative History of Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in- Sentencing in the 1994 Crime Bill and 1995 Amendments (with Peter Greenwood), RAND (1996) CURRENT PROJECTS AND PAPERS Justice for Some: A Study of Small Claims Court (with Anthony Niblett) GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS 2016 Professor of Law & Economics (endowed chair), Toronto, ON 2015 American Constitution Society Research Grant (with Tracey George), Washington, D.C. Branstetter Visiting Scholar in Residence, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN 2014 Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund, Ottawa, ON 2012 Scotiabank Conference Fund, Toronto, ON Tory Business Research Fund, Toronto, ON 2011 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant (with Anita Anand & Frank Milne), Canada Tory Business Research Fund, Toronto, ON 2010 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Grant (with Michael Tribelcock), Canada. Nominated for Aurora Prize Connaught Fellowship, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON 2008 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY Searle Civil Justice Institute Grant (with J.J. Prescott), Chicago, IL American Bar Association Litigation Research Grant (with J.J. Prescott), Chicago, IL 2007 Law School Admissions Council Research Foundation Grant, Newtown, PA Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL Ronald H. Coase Prize for best paper in law and economics (with David Abrams) 2005 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (with Jesse Rothstein), Princeton, NJ Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL Visiting Scholar in Residence, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN 2004 Center for Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy Grant (with Ed Cheng), Boston, MA 2003 Fellow and Visiting Professor, Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Benjamin Mazur Research Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL University of Houston Law Center, Frontier Speaker, Houston, TX 2002 Searle Fund for Policy Research Grant, Chicago, IL Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1999 Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Berkeley, CA Stanford University Departmental nomination, best doctoral dissertation - American Political Science Association 1997 John M. Olin Law & Economics Fellowship, Stanford, CA 1995 John M. Olin Law & Economics Fellowship, Stanford, CA 4

5 1993 Donald Kennedy Public Interest Fellowship, Stanford, CA 1992 Stanford University Graduate Fellowship (for doctoral studies), Stanford, CA INVITED PRESENTATIONS (at law school faculty workshop unless otherwise noted) 2016 U. of Toronto (March); U. of South Carolina (April); American Bar Foundation (May) 2015 Cornell (March); Vanderbilt (March); Emory (April); UNLV (September); Syracuse (October) 2014 Law Society of Upper Canada (January); Princeton LAPA Workshop (April); Marquette Symposium on Judicial Clerks (April); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); U. of Toronto (October); Université Laval (November) 2013 Michigan L&E Workshop (February); DePaul (April); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel Aviv- Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); SEALS (August); CLEA (September) 2012 Boston U. (April); U. of Chicago, Judicial Behavior Workshop (May); American Bar Foundation (May); Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); SEALS (August); Wake Forest (September); CLEA (October); Syracuse (November) 2011 U. of Georgia (February); Northwestern L&E Colloquium (April); California Western (June); Washington U (September); Vanderbilt (October); U. of Chicago (November) 2010 SEALS (August); CLEA (October); Georgetown L&E Workshop (October) 2009 Russell Sage Foundation (February); Fordham (February); DePaul Clifford Symposium (April); Duke (ERID) (April); Canadian L&E (September) 2008 Tel Aviv-Sienna-Toronto L&E Conference (June); Northwestern Searle Conference (October) 2007 Chicago-Kent (February); American Bar Foundation (February); U. of Chicago L&E Workshop (February); NBER (March); Lewis and Clark (April); Cardozo (April); Florida State L&E Colloquium (April) 2006 U. of Alabama (January); Mercer Symposium (February); Washington U. Securities Conference (April); CLEA (October); U. of Texas CELS (October); Michigan State (November); Emory (November); Brookings, American Enterprise Symposium (December) 2005 U. of Michigan (January); U. of Toronto L&E Colloquium (February); UCLA (March); USC L&E Workshop (March); Loyola Los Angeles (March); Vanderbilt Workshop (March); Northwestern (August); U. of Texas L&E Workshop (November); Duke (December) 2004 U. of Michigan Legal Theory Workshop (February); Brooklyn (February); Princeton Law and Public Affairs Seminar (February); Law & Society Conference (May); Cornell JELS Conference (October) 2003 Vanderbilt (January); U. of Hawaii (February); Stanford Olin L&E Workshop (February); U. of Illinois (May); ALEA Toronto (September); Columbia L&E Colloquium (October); Washington U. (October); U. of Houston Law Frontier Speaker Series (November); Princeton Industrial Relations/Labor Economics Seminar (November) 2002 Midwest Political Science Association (April); Law & Society Conference, Vancouver (May); Northwestern, Institute for Policy Research (May); St. Louis U. - Symposium (October) 2001 Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (June) Job Market Presentation (various law schools) 2000 Midwest Political Science Association (April); Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (May); UC-Berkeley, Center for Law and Society (November) 1999 Ohio State Political Science (March) 1998 American Political Science Association - Boston (September) 5

6 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Admitted to Practice: California (inactive); U.S. Court of Appeals, 6 th Circuit; U.S. District Court, Ohio; Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) (inactive) Institutional Service: Northwestern: Chair, Judicial Clerkship Committee; Entry-Level Appointments Committee; Outside Speakers Committee U. of Toronto: Financial Aid Committee; Co-Founder, Osgoode-Toronto Junior Faculty Forum; Associate Dean s Research Committee; Appointments Committee; Admissions Committee; Board Centre of Innovation Law & Policy; Curriculum Committee External Service: American Bar Foundation Research Group in Legal Diversity ( ); National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Advisory Panel ( ); Law and Social Inquiry, Editorial Board ( ), American Association of Law Schools, Committee on Research ( ) Professional/Academic Associations: America Law Institute; American Law & Economics Association; American Political Science Association; Law & Society Association; American Bar Association Reviewer: American Economic Review; American Economic Journal Applied Economics; American Journal of Political Science; American Law & Economics Review; American Political Science Review; Business and Politics; Economic Development and Cultural Change; International Review of Law & Economics; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Journal of Korean Law; Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Law & Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Judicature; Journal of Legal Studies; Law & Social Inquiry; National Science Foundation; RAND; Russell Sage Foundation; Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC); U. of Toronto Law Journal Other: Co-founder, Blue J. Legal, Inc. 6