William Baude


William P. Baude is a 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 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.
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 of the United States John Roberts and Judge Michael W. McConnell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2007, and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2004.