Jonah B. Gelbach
Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Jonah B. Gelbach is the Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
His research spans civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation, and law & economics. He also studies event-study methodology, securities litigation, the economics of crime, applied statistical methods, public-assistance evaluation, and applied microeconomics.
At Berkeley Law, Gelbach has served as professor of law and previously taught as a visiting professor at New York University School of Law. Before joining Berkeley, he was professor of law and associate professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Earlier, he held tenured economics appointments as associate professor at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management and as associate professor and assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland.
He has served as a director of the American Law and Economics Association and as co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. He also worked as a pro bono consultant to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on the design of its juror-selection system and served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States on federal-court administrative appeals.
Gelbach earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
