About Kevin Scott
Kevin Scott Haeberle is an academic lawyer whose path spans courts, classrooms and research centers. He earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Those credentials sit at the start of a career that moves from judicial chambers to university lecture halls.
Early in his career Haeberle served as a foreign law clerk to Chief Justice Aharon Barak at the Supreme Court of Israel in 2005. He then clerked for Judge Victor Marrero at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2009. Between those clerkships and his later academic appointments he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in 2012 at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School, participating in the Program on the Law and Economics of Capital Markets.
Haeberle joined the academy in a series of faculty posts. He was an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina Law School beginning in 2014. In 2017 he moved to William & Mary Law School as a professor of law. In 2023 he accepted a faculty position at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where he holds an office and teaches. His career path shows a steady engagement with research and teaching in multiple law schools across different regions.
His scholarship reflects the institutional attachments in his background. The post-doctoral work at Columbia tied him to law-and-economics approaches and to the study of capital markets. The sequence of clerkships adds a comparative dimension; time spent in Israel’s highest court and in a federal trial court in New York exposed him to different judicial practices and legal questions. That combination shows up in his writing and classes, which often examine how rules and institutions shape market behavior and legal outcomes.
Colleagues and students have noted the variety of settings he has worked in. He has moved between courts and classrooms and between scholarship and teaching. He has taught courses at several law schools and participated in research programs that bridge law and business.
Haeberle practices in New York and remains active in academic research and teaching. He currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and his current practice and scholarship concentrate on the law and economics of capital markets and related legal institutions.
