Keith N. Hylton
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Keith N. Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and professor of law at Boston University School of Law, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research spans law & economics, with particular focus on tort law, antitrust, labor law, intellectual property, litigation theory, corporate law, and empirical legal analysis.
At Boston University, he has held multiple chaired professorships and has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. Before joining Boston University, he taught at Northwestern University School of Law, where he received tenure. Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation.
Hylton has played significant leadership roles in the profession. He served as president of the American Law and Economics Association and is a member of the American Law Institute. He has also held editorial positions with the International Review of Law and Economics, Competition Policy International, and the Antitrust Law Journal. His honors include the Trailblazer’s Award from the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and the Allyn Young Prize for best undergraduate economics thesis at Harvard College.
He is the author or co-author of several books, including “Tort Law: A Modern Perspective,” “Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas” (with Ron Cass), “Research Handbook on the Economics of Criminal Law” (co-edited with Alon Harel), “Antitrust Law and Economics,” and “Antitrust Law: Economic Theory and Common Law Evolution.”
Hylton earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a bachelor’s from Harvard College.
