Edmund W. Kitch Mary and Daniel Loughran Professor of Law E. James Kelly, Jr. - Class of 1965 Research Professor Universoty of Virginia School of Law 580 Massie Road Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-1738 ewk@virginia.edu

Education:

• B.A., Yale University, 1961
• J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1964

Bio:

Edmund Kitch joined the University of Virginia Law School faculty in 1982. His scholarly and teaching interests include agency, corporations, securities, antitrust, industrial and intellectual property, economic regulation, and legal and economic history.

In law school Kitch was comment editor for the University of Chicago Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After spending one year as an assistant professor at Indiana University, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1965 until 1982. During that time he served as reporter of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, special assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and executive director of the Civil Aeronautics Board Committee on Procedural Reform. He also has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford, Michigan, New York University, Brooklyn Law School, and Georgetown University. In 1996 he was the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law.

After he came to Virginia, he became a member of the Committee on Public-Private Sector Interactions in Vaccine Innovation of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1983-1985). He also was a member of U.Va.'s Center for Advanced Studies from 1982-85. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute.