George Vojta

I am an incoming Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. I received my PhD in Economics and JD at the University of Chicago researching topics in the intersection of law and economics. My research uses empirical methods and machine learning techniques such as natural language processing 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, immigration, tort, and professional-responsibility law itself shape that institutional structure and those procedural choices.

Before Chicago, I served as a Research Associate at the Columbia Business School after obtaining my B.A. in Economics at Claremont McKenna College. 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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