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Judd E. Stone

Judd E. Stone is a partner at Stone Hilton in Austin, Texas, and was the State of Texas solicitor general from February 2021 to October 2023. He is also a former research fellow at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).

Before joining the Texas Solicitor General’s Office in 2020, Stone was chief counsel for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and previously practiced at Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius in their Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group in Washington. D.C., and at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. He also served as an Olin-Searle-Smith fellow at Harvard Law School.

Stone began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, to then-Chief Judge Edith Jones on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and for Justice Daniel Winfree on the Alaska Supreme Court. He received his law degree from Northwestern University, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas, Dallas.

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Judd Stone on Behavioral Economics, Administrative Agencies, and Unintended Consequences

Judd E. Stone Dec 07, 2010

Professors Henderson and Ribstein touch on two theoretical failures of the behavioralist movement which both reveal the prematurity of ‘behaviorally-informed’ regulatory proposals: the behavioralist assumptions that (1) behavioral biases theoretically necessitate, or at least enable, public intervention, and (2) governmental entities can net improve individual outcomes over the status quo of unfettered, if limited, human ... Judd Stone on Behavioral Economics, Administrative Agencies, and Unintended Consequences

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Judd Stone on Misbehavioral Economics: The Misguided Imposition of Behavioral Economics on Antitrust

Judd E. Stone Dec 06, 2010

Behavioral law and economics has arisen to international prominence; between Cass Sunstein’s appointment to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs the United Kingdom’s appointment of a “nudge” bureau, behavioralism has enjoyed a meteoric impact on policymakers.  Thus far, behavioral economists have almost exclusively focused on the myriad foibles or purported cognitive errors which ... Judd Stone on Misbehavioral Economics: The Misguided Imposition of Behavioral Economics on Antitrust

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