Henry N. Butler

Career Butler has been involved in the political and legal spheres. While at George Mason University, he served as director of the Law and Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law, which operates the Economics Institutes program for federal judges. In December 1995, Butler introduced the Economics Institute for State Judges at the University of Kansas' Law and Organizational Economics Center. Before assuming the GMU Law deanship in 2015, Butler was a George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law. In 2019, he became the inaugural Allison and Dorothy Rouse Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School. After he yielded the deanship to Ken Randall, Butler assumed the Henry G. Manne Chair in Law and Economics.

Butler has written extensively on law and economics. He has written a casebook, Economic Analysis for Lawyers (with Christopher Drahozal, Carolina Academic Press), used at the Economics Institute for State Judges. Other books by Butler include Unhealthy Alliances: Bureaucrats, Interest Groups, and Politicians in Health (1994, American Entreprise Institute) The Corporation and the Constitution (with Larry E. Ribstein; 1995, American Entreprise Institute); and Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy (with Jonathan R. Macey; 1996, American Enterprise Institute).

Butler serves on the Legal Advisory Council of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest and the advisory board of the Atlantic Legal Foundation.