Kathryn Zeiler

Professor Kathryn Zeiler is a Nancy Barton Scholar and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. She teaches in the areas of tort law, health law and law and economics. Her scholarship applies economic theory and empirical methods to the study of legal issues and research questions. Her main scholarly interests include the advancement of empirical legal studies, metaresearch, importation of experimental economics results and behavioral economics theories into legal scholarship, the medical malpractice liability system, malpractice insurance markets, and patient safety.

Professor Zeiler is a Fellow and past chair of the board of directors for the Society of Empirical Legal Studies. She was elected to serve as the 2020 to 2021 Secretary-Treasurer for the American Law and Economics Association, served as vice president in 2021 to 2022, and president and host of the association’s annual meeting in 2022 to 2023. She was elected in 2022 to a three-year term on the board of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science and has served as vice president (2022). She was appointed in 2021 to the Advisory Board of ReplicationWiki and in 2023 to the Steering Committee of the Aumann-Fischer Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy housed at Hebrew University Law Faculty. She is a member of the editorial board of Behavioral Science and Policy and is co-Editor-in-Chief of MetaROR (MetaResearch on Research), a publish-review-curate platform for metaresearch . She has served as a member of the Max Planck Institute’s Scientific Review Board for Research on Collective Goods (2011 to 2018) and as a member of the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association (2010 to 2012). She is a regular peer-reviewer for several economics, law and economics, health policy and medical journals.