Speaker Biorgraphies

December 19, 2005

Tom Baker is the Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and the director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut. Before teaching law, he clerked for Judge Juan Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, practiced with the firm of Covington & Burling, and served as an Associate Counsel for the Independent Counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair. His research examines issues of risk and responsibility in the fields of torts and insurance. Professor Baker is active in the Law and Society Association and is a co-founder of the Insurance and Society Study Group, an informal association of scholars from law, humanities, and the social sciences who write about risk and insurance. He is the author of Insurance Law and Policy (Aspen 2003) and co-editor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility (U. Chicago 2002), as well as The Medical Malpractice Myth (U. Chicago 2005).

Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project, managing the institute's research about liability reform proposals, tort law, class actions and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included Vioxx and automobile product liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases.

Martin F. Grace is associate director and research associate of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where in 2002 he was named James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management. Mr. Grace's research concerning the economics and public policy aspects of insurance regulation and taxation has been published in various economics and insurance journals. Mr. Grace is a former president of the Risk Theory Society, an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, and editor of RiskProf—a weblog on risk and insurance issues. 

Dr. David Hyman is widely considered to be one of the country’s top health law scholars. His principal research interests are the regulation of health care financing and delivery and empirical law and economics.  Professor Hyman has published articles on a wide range of subjects, including medical malpractice, managed care, consumer protection, narrative, professional responsibility, tax exemption, and civil procedure. Professor Hyman served for three years as Special Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission, where he was responsible for coordinating hearings and a major report on health care and competition law and policy. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Law and Medicine, and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Jonathan Klick is an assistant professor of law and a courtesy professor of economics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and serves as an adjunct scholar for AEI's Liability Project. Mr. Klick's research focuses on statistical analyses of the effects of legal changes on individual behavior, and he has published academic articles in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and The Journal of Legal Studies, as well as numerous medical journals and law reviews.

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