Joanna Shepherd
Thomas Simmons Professor of Law
Emory University School of Law
Joanna Shepherd is the Thomas Simmons Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and a nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics. Her research applies law & economics methods to judicial behavior, torts, health policy, and empirical legal analysis.
She currently serves as vice dean at Emory University School of Law and as an affiliated professor of economics at Emory University. She previously served as professor of law, associate professor of law with tenure, associate professor of law, assistant professor of law, and visiting assistant professor in the Emory Department of Economics. Earlier in her career, she was an assistant professor of economics at Clemson University.
She is the author or co-author of several books, including “Free to Judge?: The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections” (with Michael Kang), “Economic Analysis for Lawyers” (with Henry N. Butler and Christopher Drahozal), and “The Economics of Industrial Organization” (with William G. Shepherd).
She earned a Ph.D. in economics from Emory University, where she was a Woodruff Scholar. She also holds a bachelor’s from Baylor University.
