Henry N. Butler
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February 16, 1954
Henry N. Butler | |
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| Dean of the Antonin Scalia Law School | |
| In office June 25, 2015 – December 1, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel D. Polsby |
| Succeeded by | Ken Randall |
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| Born | Henry Nolde Butler[1] February 16, 1954 Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.[1] |
| Party | Republican |
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Henry Nolde Butler (born February 16, 1954) is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy and former executive director of the Law and Economics Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia.
Butler formerly served as the director of the Judicial Education Program at the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Institution Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. A conservative, he supports free markets with little regulation. He has acted as an expert witness in a legal cases involving antitrust, restrictive covenants, damages, joint ventures, and other issues.
Butler ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia's 11th congressional district in 1992; he lost the general election to Democrat Leslie L. Byrne.
Butler is the son of M. Caldwell Butler, who served as a Republican U.S. Representative for Virginia's 6th congressional district from 1972 to 1983.[2]
Butler received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Richmond in 1977. He then attended Virginia Tech, where he earned a Master of Arts in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1982. There he studied under James M. Buchanan, a Nobel Economics Laureate.
Butler received a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.
