Justin McCrary

An economist by training, Justin McCrary has been teaching in law schools since 2008 when he joined the UC Berkeley faculty. While at Berkeley, he directed the Social Sciences Data Laboratory, which focused on training graduate students in processing data at scale. Prior to Berkeley, he was on the University of Michigan faculty in the policy school and the economics department. He most recently has been on the Columbia faculty, where his teaching portfolio centers around antitrust. He joins UT as a 2025-26 visiting professor in the School of Civic Leadership and the Law School, and as a Research Fellow of the Civitas Institute.  Of ecumenical scholarly interests, Professor McCrary’s academic work spans statistical methodologies, antitrust, financial markets, criminal justice, fertility choices, and monetary policy, among other topics.  For a dozen years, he co-directed the Crime Working Group of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he remains a Faculty Research Associate. Over the years, his academic work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Arnold Foundation.