University of Chicago, B.A., M.A.
American University, J.D.
Columbia University, LL.M., J.S.D.
Professor Claire A. Hill teaches courses in commercial and business law, as well as seminars in law and economics, transactions, and corporate governance. Professor Hill's research interests include capital structure, behavioral law and economics, contract theory, and law and language. She previously taught in the Schools of Law at Chicago-Kent, George Mason, Northwestern and Boston University; she also was a Sloan Visiting Professor at Georgetown. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Hill practiced corporate law at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York.
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Lawsuit: A Social Norms Theory of Incomplete Contracts (forthcoming) DELAWARE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE LAW
Reducing the Negative Consequences of Identity: A Potential Role for the Nonprofit Sector in the Era of Globalization, co-authored with Avner Ben-Ner, 79 ANN. PUBLIC & COOP. ECON. 579 (2008)
The Rationality of Preference Construction (and the Irrationality of Rational Choice) 9 MINN. J. L. SCI & TECH 689 (2008) (symposium issue on Self and Other: Cognitive Perspectives on Trust, Empathy and the Self)
The Myth of Discovery, 9 MINN. J. L. SCI & TECH 743 (2008) (symposium issue on Self and Other: Cognitive Perspectives on Trust, Empathy and the Self)
Tax Lawyers are People Too: Commentary on Victor Fleischer’s Options Backdating, Tax Shelters and Corporate Culture, 26 VA. TAX. REV. 1065 (2007) (reprinted in Monthly Digest of Tax Articles, 2007)
Anti-Anti-Anti Paternalism, 2 NYU J. LAW & LIBERTY 444 (2007) (symposium issue on legal paternalism)
Stone v. Ritter: The Expanding Duty of Loyalty (co-authored with Brett McDonnell), 76 FORD. L. REV 1769 (2007) (Selected to be reprinted in volumes on Director Liability and Duty of Care published by Amicus Books, an imprint of Icfai University Press)
Creating Failures in the Market for Tax Planning, (co-authored with Phil Curry and Francesco Parisi), 26 Va. Tax. Rev. 944 (2007) (symposium on The Future of Tax Shelters; symposium co-organizer (with Kristin Hickman)).
A Cognitive Theory of Trust (co-authored with Erin O’Hara), 84 WASH. U. L. REV.1717 (2006)
How German Contracts Do As Much With Fewer Words, 79 Chi-Kent. L. Rev. 889 (2004) (with Christopher King) (also forthcoming in the conference proceedings for the 2003 Conference on Comparative Law and Language, Society of Comparative Law).
Regulating the Rating Agencies, 82 Wash. U. L. Q. 43 (2004). This paper also was selected for inclusion in the Securities Law Review for 2005.
Rating Agencies Behaving Badly: The Case of Enron, in Symposium: Crisis in Confidence: Corporate Governance and Professional Ethics Post-Enron, 35 Conn. L. Rev. 1145 (2003).
