George Vojta

I am a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. I study tort law and civil procedure, focusing on how procedural institutions and features of the market for legal services, such as the matching of clients and lawyers, determine which injuries become claims, which claims receive representation, which claims become filed claims, where those cases are heard, and how they fare in court. I then study how these selection effects shape compensation, deterrence, and case outcomes. This agenda also informs my work in professional responsibility, insurance law, and immigration. I approach these questions using tools from economics, natural language processing, and machine learning.

I received my PhD in Economics and JD at the University of Chicago, and my BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. I clerked for Judge Johnstone on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and interned for Judge Krause on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before graduate school, I served as a Research Associate at the Columbia Business School.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Minneapolis, I am an avid fan of chess, stand-up comedy, tennis, and (most importantly) the Philadelphia Eagles.

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