Andrew C. Baker

Andrew Baker is an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

His research focuses on corporate governance, securities regulation, empirical legal studies, and law & economics. His work examines the intersection of corporate governance and labor-market outcomes, as well as the use of economic and empirical evidence in legal disputes.

Before joining Berkeley Law, Baker was a research fellow at Stanford Law School, where he conducted empirical research on securities litigation and other legal and economic issues. Earlier, he was a senior consultant at Navigant Economics, where he conducted economic and financial analysis for securities litigation. He also held research positions at Georgetown University and the Center for Global Development and completed summer positions at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Baker earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He earned a bachelor’s in international economics, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.