Henry N. Butler

Henry N. Butler (born c. 1955) is an American professor of law, economics, and public policy. He currently serves as the executive director of the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law, however on April 22, 2015 Dean Daniel D. Polsby sent an email to alumni announcing that Butler would be replacing him as dean of the law school as of June 25, 2015. He formerly served 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.