Professor

Michael

D.

Gilbert

Michael Gilbert is the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on election law, statutory interpretation, and the economic analysis of law. His current research focuses on misinformation, corruption, and the role of “prosocial” preferences such as empathy in law. His research has appeared in multiple law reviews, peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and his book titled Public Law and Economics was published by Oxford University Press. 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. Gilbert clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and he received his J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.