William Baude

William Patrick Baude is an American legal scholar. He currently serves as a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and the director of its Constitutional Law Institute. He is a leading scholar of constitutional law and originalism.

Early life and education

Baude graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.S. with honors in 2004, where he studied mathematics with a specialization in economics. He was a member of Sigma Xi. In 2007, he graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles and essay editor on the ''Yale Law Journal''.

Legal career

After graduating from law school, Baude clerked for Judge Michael W. McConnell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and Chief Justice John G. Roberts on the U.S. Supreme Court. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as an associate at Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP in Washington, D.C. Between 2012 and 2013, he was a summer fellow at the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism at the University of San Diego Law School and a fellow at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, where he later worked as a visiting assistant professor of law.

Baude joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 2014 and was appointed as a tenured professor in 2018. He teaches constitutional law, federal courts, and conflicts of law. In 2020, he established the law school's Constitutional Law Institute, on which he serves as faculty director. He is a co-editor of ''The Constitution of the United States'' (4th ed., 2021). and has written extensively on originalism in the U.S. Constitution. Baude is among the most cited active scholars of constitutional law in the United States and the youngest professor on that list.

Baude writes for the Volokh Conspiracy blog and has contributed to the ''New York Times'' and the ''Chicago Tribune''. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is the 2017 recipient of the Federalist Society's Paul M. Bator award. He also co-hosts a podcast, ''Divided Argument'', with law professor Daniel Epps on which they discuss recent Supreme Court decisions. Baude coined the term shadow docket in 2015.

In 2021, Baude, together with fellow faculty members David A. Strauss and Alison LaCroix, was appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

See also

* List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice)

References

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