Law, Economics, and Business Workshop Presents Michael D. Gilbert, University of Virginia School of Law

Michael Gilbert is vice dean of UVA Law. He teaches courses on election law, legislation, and law and economics, and his current research focuses misinformation, corruption, and the role of “prosocial” preferences such as empathy in law. In 2022, Oxford University Press published Gilbert’s book, Public Law and Economics. His research has appeared in multiple law reviews, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and he has lectured throughout the United States and around the world.

Gilbert has been a visiting professor at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris and Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, among other places. He has won UVA’s All-University Teaching Award and the Student Council Distinguished Teaching Award. He was the inaugural director of UVA Law’s Center for Public Law and Political Economy, and he is a member of Convergencia, an international network of scholars studying economic and social regulations. He is a member of the UVA Democracy Initiative’s Corruption Lab for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law.