Tom Baker
Tom Baker is the Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut. Professor Baker teaches torts and insurance law, and serves as the faculty advisor to the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. He received his B.A. and J.D. from Harvard University, magna cum laude. Before entering law teaching, he clerked for Judge Juan Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, practised with the firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and served as an Associate Counsel for the Independent Counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair. His research examines issues of risk and responsibility in the fields of torts and insurance. Professor Baker is active in the Law and Society Association and is a co-founder of the Insurance and Society Study Group, an informal association of scholars from law, humanities and the social sciences who write about risk and insurance. He has published articles in the Chicago Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Texas Law Review, Law & Social Inquiry, the Wisconsin Law Review, Economy and Society, Law and Society Review, and the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. He is the author of Insurance Law and Policy (Aspen 2003) and co-editor of Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility (U. Chicago 2002). His most recent book, The Medical Malpractice Myth (U. Chicago 2005), attacks the misperceptions behind the tort reform movement and proposes an evidence-based approach to medical liability reform.
