George Vojta

I am a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. My research focuses on empirical analyses on civil courts and their institutional design using techniques from economics, natural language processing, and machine learning. I use these techniques to understand how the institutional and procedural design of civil litigation (who represents litigants, how lawyers and clients match together, and what incentives judges have across different forums) shapes who gets access to civil justice and who prevails. In turn, I examine these questions from the bottom up: researching how doctrines in civil procedure, torts, immigration, and professional-responsibility law itself shape that institutional structure and those procedural choices.

I received my PhD in Economics and JD at the University of Chicago, and my BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College. I clerked for Judge Johnstone on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and interned for Judge Krause on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before graduate school, I served as a Research Associate at the Columbia Business School.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Minneapolis, I am an avid fan of chess, stand-up comedy, tennis, and (most importantly) the Philadelphia Eagles.

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