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Henry N. Butler is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy. He currently serves as the first executive director of the Searle Center at Northwestern University's School of Law. He also serves as the Director of the Judicial Education Program at the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Institution Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. Butler is a conservative and a supporter of 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 received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Richmond in 1977 and his Master of Arts from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in economics, also from Virginia Tech, in 1982. There he studied under Nobel Economic Laurate James M. Buchanan Butler received his Juris Doctor law degree from the University of Miami in 1982, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

Butler has written extensively on law and economics. He has written a casebook, "Economic Analysis for Lawyers" (with Christopher Drahozal, Carolina Academic Press), used at the Economics Institute for State Judges. Other books by Butler include "Unhealthy Alliances: Bureaucrats, Interest Groups, and Politicians in Health" (1994, American Entreprise Institute) "The Corporation and the Constitution" (with Larry E. Ribstein; 1995, American Entreprise Institute); and "Using Federalism to Improve Environmental Policy" (with Jonathan R. Macey; 1996, American Entreprise Institute).

Butler serves on the Legal Advisory Council of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest and the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Legal Foundation.