Kathryn Zeiler

Kathryn Zeiler is a Professor of Law and the Nancy Barton Scholar at the Boston University School of Law. Previously, she served as a Senior Academic Fellow at the Center during a sabbatical from Georgetown Law School in Fall 2010. Her research focuses on empirical analyses of legal systems and tort reform.

Her work includes a co-authored book, To Sue is Human: A Profile of Medical Malpractice Litigation (Yale University Press), based on a dataset of 16,000 Texas medical malpractice claims (1988–2005), and a chapter in the Tort Law Handbook on tort reform impacts. She examines liability systems, insurance markets, and the efficacy of legal frameworks in medical malpractice cases.

• Awards: Nancy Barton Scholar, Senior Academic Fellow