William Baude

William Baude is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the law school's faculty in 2014.

Baude writes for the Volokh Conspiracy blog, contributes to the New York Times, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He is the 2017 recipient of the Federalist Society's Paul M. Bator award.

Before coming to Chicago, Baude was a fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and an Associate at the Washington, D.C., office of Robbins Russell LLP and a Law Clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts of the United States Supreme Court. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2004.