Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development and Associate 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 Brown & Wood, 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
Book Chapters/Collected Works
Regulatory Barriers to Consumer Information with Philip G. Peters, in LABELING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD: THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL DEBATE, (ed. Paul Weirich, Oxford University Press, 2007).
The 'Failure to Mitigate' Defense in Antitrust, 51 no.3 THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN: THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTITRUST AND TRADE REGULATION 569 (2006).
Additional Publications
Ignoring the Lessons of Von's Grocery: Some Thoughts on the FTC’s Opposition to the Whole Foods/Wild Oats Merger, eCCP: eSAPIENCE CENTER FOR COMPETITION POLICY (June 2007).
A Middle Ground Position in the Insider Trading Debate: Deregulate the Sell Side, U of Missouri-Columbia School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2007-18 (2007).
