Babette Boliek
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Caruso School of Law
Babette Boliek is a professor of law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
Her research focuses on antitrust law, telecommunications law and policy, privacy law, sports law, and the economic analysis of communications regulation.
Boliek previously served as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for economic analysis in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. Before entering government service, she was a senior fellow at the Information Economy Project at George Mason University School of Law and a fellow of the Center for Communication Law and Policy, a joint program of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the Annenberg School of Communication. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
She has also held visiting and research appointments, including as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Boliek was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics while in law school.
She earned a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis, and a bachelor’s, with distinction, from California State University, Chico.
