William Baude
William Baude | |
|---|---|
| Title | Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Chicago (BS) Yale University (JD) |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Constitutional law |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of Chicago |
William Patrick Baude (/boʊd/) is an American legal scholar who specializes in United States constitutional law.
Baude joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School as an assistant professor in 2014 and received tenure in 2018. He was named the Harry Kalven Jr. Professor of Law in 2023 and founded the Constitutional Law Institute in 2020 at the law school.
Baude became known for coining the term "shadow docket" in 2015 to describe a practice of the United States Supreme Court.