Northwestern University School of Law 357 E. Chicago Ave, Levy Mayer 272 Chicago, IL (312)

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1 ALBERT H. YOON Northwestern University School of Law 357 E. Chicago Ave, Levy Mayer 272 Chicago, IL (312) CURRENT EMPLOYMENT 2001-present NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL Professor of Law Outside Appointments: Professor of Political Science (by courtesy); Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research; Faculty Associate, Center for Legal Studies Areas of Research: Tort Reform; Corporate and Securities Law; Federal Courts; Political Parties and Federalism; Local Government Law; Law & Economics; Labor Law Classes of Instruction: Torts; Business Associations, Advanced Topics in Civil Litigation Committees: Judicial Clerkship; Entry-Level Appointments; Faculty Appointments; Property, Torts and Environmental External Speaker Assistant Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, EDUCATION STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA Degrees: Master of Arts, June 1994; Juris Doctor, June 1998; Doctor of Philosophy, June 1999 Fellowships: University Doctoral Studies, Olin Law & Economics, Kennedy Public Interest Stanford Law School Senior Article Editor, Managing Board, Stanford Law Review, Volume 49 Research Assistant: Richard Ford (law), Barry Weingast (political science) Co-President, APILSA (Asian Pacific Island Law Students Association) Stanford University Department of Political Science Major Field: American Politics; Minor Field: International Relations Coursework: Political Economics, Game Theory, Statistics, International Relations Dissertation: Beyond the Median: Understanding the Lower Federal Court Appointments Process (Committee: John Ferejohn, Roger Noll, Robert Weisberg, Jack Rakove, David Brady) (Departmental nomination for best doctoral dissertation award for the American Political Science Association) YALE COLLEGE New Haven, CT Bachelor of Arts, English; Political Science, June 1991 Cum Laude; Academic Distinction in Political Science

2 OTHER EMPLOYMENT Fall 2006 UNIVERISTY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF LAW Toronto, ON Visiting Professor of Law: Will teach Legal Process. Fall 2004 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law: Taught Torts PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ Fellow and Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Program in Law and Public Affairs: Researched torts and federal judiciary; taught seminar in the Woodrow Wilson School U.C. BERKELEY Berkeley, CA Robert W. Johnson Scholar: Conducted research on civil litigation U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Columbus, OH Law Clerk: Wrote briefs and drafted opinions for the Hon. R. Guy Cole, Jr THE RAND CORPORATION Santa Monica, CA Consultant-Criminal Justice Division: Analyzed federal and state truth-in-sentencing policies. Summer 1996 U.S. ATTORNEY S OFFICE San Diego, CA Intern: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for judicial corruption unit. Summer 1995 SWIDLER & BERLIN Washington, D.C. Summer Associate: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for general litigation practice. Summer 1993 THE SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN San Francisco, CA Kennedy Fellow: Wrote medical-legal handbook for homeless children in the Bay Area NEW YORK CARES, INC. New York, NY Project Planner: Managed food and shelter volunteer programs in Manhattan. Summer 1990 CLIFFORD CHANCE, SOLICITORS London, England Intern: Researched and drafted legal memoranda for general corporate practice. PUBLICATIONS 2006 A Market Solution to Civil Litigation?: An Empirical Study of Offer-of-Judgment Rules (co-authored with Tom Baker), forthcoming, 59 Vanderbilt Law Review (2006) Symposium of FRCP 68: Lessons from New Jersey, forthcoming, 56 Mercer Law Review (2006) Pensions, Politics, and Judicial Tenure: An Empirical Study of Federal Judges, , forthcoming, 8 American Law & Economics Review (2006) Evaluating the Role of Brown v. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans (co-authored with Orley Ashenfelter and William Collins) (symposium on 50 th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education), forthcoming 8 American Law & Economics Review (2006) 2005 Does Frye or Daubert Matter? A Study of Scientific Admissibility Standards (co-authored with Edward Cheng), 91 Virginia Law Review (2005) As You Like It: Senior Federal Judges and the Political Economy of Judicial Tenure, forthcoming 2 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2005) Pan-Ethnicity Revisited: Asian Indians, Asian-American Politics, and the Voting Rights Act (coauthored with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 8-30 (2005) 2004 Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the West, 6 American Law & Economics Review (2004) 2003 Love s Labor s Lost: Judicial Tenure among Lower Federal Court Judges, , 90 California Law Review (2003) 2

3 The Federal Court System: A Principal-Agent Perspective (Symposium, co-authored with Tracey George), 47 St. Louis Law Journal (2003) 2002 The Consequences of National Parties and Corporate Money for Political Safeguards (coauthored with Paul Frymer), 96 Northwestern University Law Review (2002) 2001 Damage Caps and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigation in the South, 3 American Law & Economics Review (2001) Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Courts, and Statistics (co-authored with Wendy Tam Cho), 10 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy (2001) 1998 Politics and Precedence: The Legislative History of Violent Offender Incarceration and Truthin-Sentencing in the 1994 Crime Bill and 1995 Amendments (RAND Publication, co-authored with Peter Greenwood) CURRENT PROJECTS AND PAPERS Mismatch in Law School (co-authored with Jesse Rothstein): studying the effect of affirmative action on law school admission, graduation, and labor choices. The Returns to Legal Representation (co-authored with David Abrams): studying the effect of lawyer quality on outcomes in criminal cases, using a natural experiment design involving court-appointed legal counsel. Cross-Monitoring and Corporate Governance (co-authored with Fred Tung): exploring whether banks who provide capital to firms have an effect on corporate governance, either through decisions by corporate officers/directors and firm performance. The Political Economy of Debt: examining the effect of government policies that influence individuals willingness to incur debt, focusing on post-secondary education. The Effect of Tort Reform on Health Services: A Case Study of C-Section (co-authored with J.J. Prescott): studying how changes in tort law over the past twenty years have affected physicians in their provision of care, examining obstetricians patterns of using Caesarian Section for pregnant women. The Returns to Clerking (co-authored with Richard Posner and William Landes): exploring the contribution of law clerks to the work of the federal courts and also the benefits of clerking to the law clerks themselves in their subsequent legal careers. RECENT FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS RECEIVED 2005 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with Jesse Rothstein), Princeton, NJ Searle Fund for Policy Research, Chicago, IL Visiting Scholar in Residence, March 2005 (Vanderbilt Law School), Nashville, TN 2004 Center for Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy (with Ed Cheng), Boston, MA Program in Law and Public Affairs (Princeton University), Princeton, NJ 2003 Benjamin Mazur Research Professor, Chicago, IL 2002 Searle Fund for Policy Research, Chicago, IL Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University), Evanston, IL Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Berkeley, CA 3

4 INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2006 Washington University Law School Law & Politics Workshop (April) (Mismatch in Law School) Mercer University School of Law Rule 68 Symposium (February) (Lessons from New Jersey) University of Alabama School of Law Faculty Workshop (January) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) 2005 Duke University Faculty Workshop (December) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) University of Texas Law & Economics Workshop (November) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules II) Northwestern Law School Summer Faculty Workshop (August) (Mismatch in Law School) Vanderbilt University Dean s Lunch Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) Loyola University, Los Angeles - Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) University of Southern California - Law & Economics Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of- Judgment Rules I) University of California, Los Angeles - Faculty Workshop (March) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules I) University of Toronto Law School - Law & Economics Faculty Workshop (February) (Offer-of- Judgment Rules) University of Michigan School of Law Legal Theory Workshop (January) (Offer-of-Judgment Rules) 2004 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Junior Empirical Legal Studies Conference (October), Cornell University (Senior Federal Judges) Law & Society Conference (May), Chicago (Senior Federal Judges) Princeton University Law and Public Affairs Seminar (February) (Senior Federal Judges) Brooklyn Law School Faculty Workshop (February) (Judicial Retirement) University of Michigan School of Law Legal Theory Workshop (February) (Judicial Retirement) 2003 University of Houston Law Center Frontier Speaker Series (November) (Judicial Princeton University Industrial Relations/Labor Economics Seminar (November) (Judicial Columbia University Law School - Law & Economics Faculty Workshop (October) (Judicial Washington University Law School (St. Louis) Faculty Workshop (October) (Judicial American Law & Economics Association (September), Toronto (Federal Judicial Tenure) University of Illinois School of Law (Champaign-Urbana) Junior Faculty Workshop (May) (Judicial Stanford University Olin Law & Economics Workshop (February) (Tort Reform) William S. Richardson School of Law Faculty Seminar (February), University of Hawaii (Mandatory Arbitration) Vanderbilt University Law School Faculty Seminar (January) (Federal Judicial Tenure) 2002 St. Louis University School of Law, Childress Lecture (October) (The Rehnquist Era in the Supreme Court) Law & Society Conference (May), Vancouver (Federal Judicial Tenure) 4

5 Institute for Policy Research (May), Northwestern (Mandatory Arbitration and Civil Litigation) Midwest Political Science Association (April), Chicago (Political Parties and Campaign Finance) 2001 Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (June), Aspen (Effect of Damage Caps on Medical Malpractice Litigation) Job Market Presentation (various law schools) (Effect of Damage Caps on Medical Malpractice Litigation) 2000 Center for Law and Society, (November) University of California, Berkeley (Effect of Damage Caps on Medical Malpractice Litigation) Aspen Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Annual Scholars Meeting (May) (Effect of Offer of Settlement Rules of Medical Malpractice Litigation) Midwest Political Science Association (April), Chicago (Arbitration and the Law) 1999 Ohio State University, Department of Political Science (March), Columbus (Federal Judicial Appointments) 1998 American Political Science Association (September), Boston (Federal Judicial Appointments) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Admitted to Practice: California; U.S. Court of Appeals, 6 th Circuit; U.S. District Court, Ohio Professional/Academic Associations: American Law & Economics Association (ALEA); American Political Science Association (APSA); Law & Society Association; California Bar Association; American Bar Association Reviewer: American Law & Economics Review; American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Business and Politics; Law & Social Inquiry, National Science Foundation Editorial Board: Law and Social Inquiry ( ; ) American Association of Law Schools: Committee on Research (2006) REFERENCES Robert Weisberg John Ferejohn Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Prof. of Law Carolyn SG Munro Prof. of Political Science Stanford Law School Stanford University Crown Quadrangle 616 Serra Mall Stanford, CA Stanford, CA (650) (650) Roger Noll Orley Ashenfelter Morris M. Doyle Centennial Prof. in Public Policy Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Prof. of Economics Department of Economics Department of Economics Stanford University Princeton University 579 Serra Mall Industrial Relations Section, Firestone Library Stanford, CA Princeton, NJ (650) (609)