Thom Lambert

Thom Lambert
  • Environmental law
  • Antitrust law
  • Business organizations
  • Insider trading
  • Smoking bans
  • Food labeling
  • Workplace safety
Wall Family Foundation Chair in Corporate Law & Governance and Professor of Law

BA summa cum laude (1993), Wheaton College
JD cum laude (1998), University of Chicago

Professor Lambert joined the faculty in the fall of 2003 from the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, where he practiced antitrust litigation from 2000 to 2003.

Prior to entering law school, Professor Lambert was an environmental policy analyst at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a Bradley Fellow and served as Comment Editor of the Law Review. After graduating with honors in 1998, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then spent a year as the John M. Olin Fellow at Northwestern University Law School.

Professor Lambert's scholarship focuses on regulatory theory and business law. He is a regular contributor to "Truth on the Market," a weblog devoted to "academic commentary on law, business, economics, and more."

Professor Lambert teaches Contracts, Business Organizations, Antitrust Law, and Environmental Law. He is a recipient of the Graduate Professional Council's Gold Chalk Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Recent Publications

Academic Journals

Appropriate Liability Rules for Tying and Bundled Discounting, 72 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 909 (2011).
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The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust, 52 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1 (2011).
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A Decision-Theoretic Rule of Reason for Minimum Resale Price Maintenance, 55 ANTITRUST BULLETIN 167 (2010).
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Additional Publications

Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Will Fail, __ REGULATION __ (forthcoming 2013).
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How the Supreme Court Doomed the ACA to Failure, 35 REGULATION 32 (forthcoming 2013).
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Working Papers

Decision Theory and the Case for a Disclosure-Based Insider Trading Regime, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper no. 2012-18
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The Roberts Court and the Limits of Antitrust, U of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-22.
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Antitrust Analysis of Bundled Discounts, U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-39 (2006).
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Complete Listing of Publications