(June 16, 2011) The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce Vincent Chiao and Anthony Niblett will be joining the Faculty as assistant professors this summer.
Vincent Chiao holds an honours bachelor degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. After receiving his law degree, Chiao completed a prestigious two-year research fellowship at Harvard Law School, where he undertook several writing projects and taught a criminal law seminar. He is currently serving as a law clerk to a federal Court of Appeals judge in Boston, which has offered him valuable insight in the field of criminal law, one of his primary areas of academic interest.
Chiao has already had articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as Legal Theory. He also joins us with significant teaching experience; he has taught classes or served as a teaching assistant at Harvard Law School, Harvard College, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Northwestern University.
In addition to criminal law and procedure, Chiao’s areas of scholarly and research interest are torts, sentencing, and jurisprudence.
Anthony Niblett is currently a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has gained extensive teaching experience and has received excellent reviews from his students. As a Bigelow Fellow, he has also been able to collaborate on publications with his University of Chicago colleagues, such as the distinguished judge and scholar Richard Posner. Niblett received an honours bachelor of laws and an honours bachelor of commerce from the University of Melbourne. In June 2009, he received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, with a focus on law and economics. His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Legal Studies and Australian Business Law Review.
Niblett’s research interests are empirical law and economics, contracts, and judicial behaviour, and his teaching interests are in contracts, torts, law and economics, business law, and intellectual property law. His work thus far has primarily used the lens of law and economics to investigate judicial decision-making.
