Edmund W. Kitch
Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Edmund W. Kitch is the Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His teaching and research address agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation, and legal & economic history.
Before joining the Virginia faculty, Kitch taught at the University of Chicago, following an earlier appointment as an assistant professor at Indiana University. He has also served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, New York University, Brooklyn Law School, Georgetown University, and as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
Alongside his academic work, he served as reporter for the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, special assistant to the solicitor general of the United States, and executive director of the Civil Aeronautics Board Committee on Procedural Reform. After arriving at Virginia, he was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Public-Private Sector Interactions in Vaccine Innovation and participated in the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Studies.
Kitch earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s from Yale University.
