Douglas G. Baird

About

Douglas G. Baird is the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. He graduated from Yale College with a BA in English summa cum laude in 1975 and earned his JD from Stanford Law School in 1979, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before joining the faculty, he clerked for Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler and Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Baird served as Dean of the Law School from 1994 to 1999 and has held various professorial roles, including Dean, Associate Dean, and Professor of Law. His research and teaching interests focus on corporate reorganizations and contracts, and he is the chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference. Baird has authored numerous books and articles on bankruptcy, contracts, and related legal topics, contributing significantly to the field of bankruptcy law and corporate reorganization.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Business
• Law
• Computer Science
• Law and economics
• Ancient history
• Accounting
• History
• Economics

Selected publications

• The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations

  2022 · 4 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The law of corporate reorganizations controls the fate of enterprises worth billions of dollars and has reshaped entire sectors of the economy, yet its inner workings largely remain a mystery. Judges must police a small and closed fraternity of professionals as they sit down at a conference table and forge a new future for a distressed business, but little appears to tell judges how they are to do this. Judges, however, are in fact bound by a coherent set of unwritten principles that derive from…

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• Boncuklu and Pınarbaşı: from forager to farmer in central Anatolia

  Heritage Turkey · 2022 · 3 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  In 2022, we conducted the 16th and final excavation season of the Boncuklu project and renewed excavations at Pnarba, one of the very few known Epipalaeolithic sites on the Anatolian plateau.

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• The Boncuklu project

  Heritage Turkey · 2023 · 2 citations

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• The Boncuklu project 2020: Boncuklu through four objects

  Heritage Turkey · 2020-12-15 · 2 citations

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• Incentive Bargaining and Corporate Governance Conference of 2025 Edited Transcript

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Robert K. Rasmussen

  42 shared

• Anthony J. Casey

  17 shared

• Edward R. Morrison

  University of Portsmouth

  14 shared

• Thomas H. Jackson

  13 shared

• David A. Skeel

  13 shared

• Randal C. Picker

  Chicago Kent College of Law

  12 shared

• Jeromin Zettelmeyer

  Bruegel

  6 shared

• Arturo Bris

  International Institute for Management Development

  5 shared

Awards & honors

• Order of the Coif (Stanford Law School, 1979)
• Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law (Uni…
• Dean of the Law School (University of Chicago, 1994-1999)
• LLD, honoris causa (University of Rochester, October 1994)

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