Kyle_D._Logue

Kyle D. Logue

Kyle D. Logue

American law professor and the Douglas A

Kyle D. Logue is an American law professor and the Douglas A. Kahn Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.[1] He was appointed to serve as interim dean of the Law School effective January 1, 2024, until a permanent dean is appointed. From 2006-2016 he was the Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law. Logue is a leading scholar and teacher in the fields of insurance law, tax law, and torts. Logue uses insights from economics, psychology, and other disciplines to shed light on issues relating to the allocation, regulation, and fair distribution of risk in society. His recent research includes work on how private insurance contracts regulate individual and commercial behavior and on how public law regulates the behavior of insurance companies.[1]

Career

Logue received his B.A. summa cum laude from Auburn University in 1987.[1] He was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a Phi Kappa Phi Scholar.[1] Logue received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal.[1] Logue served as a law clerk to Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before joining the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta as a tax attorney.[1]

Logue joined the Michigan Law faculty in 1993[2] and received tenure in 1998.[3] Logue served as Michigan Law's associate dean for academic affairs from 2006 to 2008.[1] He has taught courses in corporate and individual income tax, torts, tax policy, insurance, distributive justice, costs and benefits, asbestos liability, and other subjects.[4]

Logue is highly cited in the area of tax law.[5] The U.S. Supreme Court cited Logue on the transition effects of changes to the Internal Revenue Code in United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996).[6] Logue has published important articles in a number of fields, including torts,[7] insurance,[8] and tax.[9] He has co-written articles with many famous legal and policy scholars, including Kenneth S. Abraham, Ronen Avraham, Tom Baker, Omri Ben-Shahar, David F. Bradford, Jon D. Hanson, Saul Levmore, Daniel Schwarcz, and Joel Slemrod. Logue's work has appeared in various law journals, including the Michigan Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Tax Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.[2]

Logue was, along with Erwin Chemerinsky and David F. Levi, a finalist for the post of Duke University School of Law dean in 2006-2007; Levi was named to the position.[10]

Logue is a member of the American Law Institute and has been the associate reporter of the ALI Principles of Liability Insurance Project since 2010.[1][11] He is also the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Insurance Law.[12]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Faculty Bio: Kyle D. Logue Archived 2012-09-02 at the Wayback Machine, University of Michigan Law School.
  2. [2]
    History and Traditions - Kyle D. Logue, University of Michigan Law School.
  3. [3]
    134 receive tenure (approved by the Regents May 20, 1998).
  4. [4]
    Courses taught by Kyle D. Logue, University of Michigan Law School.
  5. [5]
    Brian Leiter, Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty, 2000-2007. Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings.
  6. [6]
    Kyle D. Logue: Assistant Professor of Law, L. Quadrangle Notes (fall/winter 1996), 17-18 (referencing United States v. Winstar Corp., 518 U.S. 839, 885 n.29 (1996) (citing Kyle D. Logue, Tax Transitions, Opportunistic Retroactivity, and the Benefits of Government Precommitment, 94 Mich. L.Rev. 1129, 1146 (1996))).
  7. [7]
    "The First-Party Insurance Externality: An Economic Justification for Enterprise Liability." J. D. Hanson, co-author. Cornell L. Rev. 76 (1990): 129-96.
  8. [8]
    "Outsourcing Regulation: How Insurance Reduces Moral Hazard." O. Ben-Shahar, co-author. Mich L. Rev. 111, no. 2 (2012): 197-248.
  9. [9]
    "Understanding the AMT, and its Sibling, the AMxT." J. R. Hines Jr., co-author. J. Legal Analysis 6 (Forthcoming, 2014).
  10. [10]
    Duke Names Federal Judge Dean of Law School, Triangle Business Journal (Jan. 3, 2007); Chris Baysden, Professor who spurned UNC may become Duke law dean, Business Journal (Dec. 25, 2006).
  11. [11]
    Principles of Liability Insurance Project Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, American Law Institute.
  12. [12]
    Section on Insurance Law, Association of American Law Schools.
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