Randal C. Picker
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School
Randal C. Picker is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His primary areas of expertise include antitrust, intellectual property, regulated industries, bankruptcy, and law & economics, with a focus on the application of game theory and computational methods to legal analysis.
He has spent his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he teaches antitrust, network industries, secured transactions, and bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, and previously served as associate dean.
Earlier in his career, he practiced law at Sidley & Austin in Chicago, focusing on debt restructuring and corporate reorganizations in bankruptcy.
He also clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Picker has contributed to major law-reform efforts as a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and as a commissioner to the Uniform Law Commission, where he worked on revisions to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the co-author of “Game Theory and the Law.”
He earned a bachelor’s, cum laude, in economics from the University of Chicago, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a master’s in economics from the University of Chicago. He also earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an associate editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
