Randal C. Picker

Randy Picker graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1980 with a BA in economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his doctoral coursework and exams in the Department of Economics as a Friedman Fellow, earning a master's degree in 1982. Subsequently, he attended the Law School, graduating cum laude in 1985 and becoming a member of the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as an Associate Editor of the Law Review and later clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Picker spent three years at Sidley & Austin in Chicago, focusing on debt restructuring and corporate reorganizations in bankruptcy. His primary research interests include intellectual property law, competition policy, and regulated industries, along with game theory applications to law. He is a co-author of Game Theory and the Law and teaches courses on antitrust, copyright, network industries, and secured transactions while having served as Associate Dean from 1994 to 1996.