Dr. David Weisbach

Biography

David Weisbach is the Walter J. Blum Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985, a Master's in Advanced Study in Mathematics from Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1986, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate at the law firm Miller & Chevalier. In 1992, he joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel and later served as associate tax legislative counsel. He transitioned to academia and became an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center in 1996 and joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1998. In addition to his teaching role, Weisbach served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratories. He is also an International Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. His primary research interests focus on issues of federal taxation and climate change.

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