2024 speakers

Tom Baker is the William Maul Measey Professor at Penn Carey Law School, with a secondary appointment at the Wharton School of Business, and a member of the Board of Directors of the liability insurer, Bowhead Specialty. Tom was the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance, and he presently serves on the editorial boards of the Law & Society Review and the Journal of Law & Empirical Analysis. He was awarded the 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize by the Law and Society Association for “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society” and the 2013 Robert B. McKay award from the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, to honor my “commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession, demonstrated by outstanding contributions to the fields of tort and insurance law.” Before joining the Penn faculty, Tom served as the Connecticut Mutual Professor and Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut from 1997 to 2008. He began his academic career at the University of Miami Law School after five years in law practice, first in the insurance coverage practice group at Covington & Burling and then in the Office of Independent Counsel investigating the Iran/Contra Affair. His BA and JD are from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude.