Herb Hovenkamp
Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair
herbert-hovenkamp@uiowa.edu
319-335-9079
407 Boyd Law Building

BA, Calvin College, 1969
MA, University of Texas, 1971
PhD, University of Texas, 1976
JD, University of Texas, 1978

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Professor Hovenkamp joined the Iowa law faculty in 1986. Before coming to Iowa, Professor Hovenkamp was Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and prior to that he was Instructor, Department of History and American Civilization, University of Texas. He has taught Antitrust, Antitrust & Economics, Law in American History, Torts, and Real Property. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been the Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Harvard Law School; Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard Law School; Faculty Scholar, University of Iowa; Presidential Lecturer, University of Iowa; and has been the recipient of the University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award.

Professor Hovenkamp's publication include some 70 articles and approximately 50 essays and book reviews, as well as a dozen books. Of these, Enterprise and American Law, 1800-1860 (1991) received the Littleton-Griswold Prize of the Ameican Historical Association; and Science and Religion in America: 1800-1860 (1978) received the Choice Award. He is the senior surviving author of Antitrust Law (formerly with Phillip Areeda & Donald Turner), currently 20 volumes.