Gillian Hadfield

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Gillian Hadfield [1]
Gillian K. Hadfield in 2024 (cropped).jpg
Hadfield in 2024
Born (1961-07-14) July 14, 1961 (age 64)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ChildrenDylan Hadfield-Menell [2]
Noah Hadfield-Menell
Academic background
Alma mater Queen's University (BA)
Stanford University (JD, PhD)
Thesis Commitment and the Design of Long-Term Contracts: Applications and Limitations of Contracting  (1990)
Doctoral advisor Paul Milgrom [1]
Other advisors Kenneth Arrow

Gillian Kereldena Hadfield (born July 14, 1961) is a Canadian economist, legal scholar and artificial intelligence researcher who is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance. She is also Professor of Law and of Strategic Management at Toronto, Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and an AI2050 Senior Fellow. [3] [4] [5] [6] From 2018 to 2023, Hadfield served as Senior Policy Adviser to the artificial intelligence company OpenAI. [7]

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She was previously the director and eponymous chair of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. [8] [9] At USC, Hadfield directed the Southern California Innovation Project and the USC Center in Law, Economics, and Organization. [10] She is a former member of the board of directors for the American Law and Economics Association [11] and the International Society for New Institutional Economics. [12]

Education and early career

Hadfield received her BA with honours in economics from Queen's University in 1983. [10] She earned a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School in 1988 and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 1990. [10]

Following law school, Hadfield clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [13] [14]

Academic career

Hadfield joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Law as an assistant law professor in 1990. [15] From 1994 to 1999, Hadfield was an associate law professor at the University of Toronto Law School, and then a professor of law from 1999 to 2001. [15] Hadfield also served as a professor with NYU School of Law's Global Law Faculty from 1999 to 2001. [15]

Hadfield moved to the USC Gould School of Law in 2001, where she was appointed the Richard L. and Antoinette Schamoi Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, serving in the role to 2018. [16]

In 2016, she was the Daniel R. Fischel and Sylvia M. Neil Distinguished visiting professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. [16] In 2010, Hadfield was the Sidley Austin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and in 2008, was the Justin W. D'Atri Visiting Professor of Law, Business, and Society at Columbia Law School. [9] In 2006–2007 and 2010–2011, Hadfield served as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and in 1993, served as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. [9]

In 2018, Hadfield rejoined the University of Toronto and in 2019 was appointed the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, as well as the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.

Hadfield served as Senior Policy Adviser to OpenAI from 2018 to 2023. [17] While at OpenAI, Hadfield proposed "regulatory markets, in which governments require the targets of regulation to purchase regulatory services from a private regulator" as a new form of regulation for the AI industry. [18]

Publications

Hadfield's work is widely published in law journals, including the Stanford Law Review , and in peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Internal Medicine , the Journal of Comparative Economics , the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science . [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Hadfield, Gillian K. (1990). Commitment and the design of long-term relationships: applications and limitations of contracting (Thesis). Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  2. ↑ Gillian Hadfield - How to create explainable AI regulations that actually make sense. November 17, 2021. Archived from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved October 9, 2022– via YouTube.
  3. ↑ Weder, Annika (June 26, 2025). "Gillian K. Hadfield named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance". The Hub. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Gillian K. Hadfield". Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Archived from the original on April 24, 2025. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Gillian Hadfield". Gillian Hadfield. July 10, 2025. Archived from the original on July 15, 2025. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ "AI2050 Gillian Hadfield at DuckDuckGo". duckduckgo.com. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Gillian Hadfield - Faculty & Staff". University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Gillian Hadfield appointed inaugural director of U of T's Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society". University of Toronto. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Gillian Hadfield". weblaw.usc.edu. USC Gould School of Law. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 "CV" (PDF). weblaw.usc.edu. USC Gould School of Law. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ "American Law and Economics Association Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting May 8-9, 2014" Archived October 18, 2022, at the Wayback Machine American Law and Economics Association, 2014, page 2. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Gillian K. Hadfield". cet.usc.edu. University of Southern California. Retrieved July 9, 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ Eñano, Katrina (November 16, 2022). "U of T Law professor Gillian Hadfield named Canadian Institute for Advanced Research AI chair". www.lawtimesnews.com. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Gillian Hadfield | University of Toronto Faculty of Law". www.law.utoronto.ca. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2025.
  15. 1 2 3 "Gillian Hadfield". weforum.org. World Economic Forum. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  16. 1 2 "Gillian Hadfield" University of Toronto. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Gillian Hadfield - Faculty & Staff". University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
  18. ↑ Hadfield, Gillian K.; Clark, Jack (2023). "Regulatory Markets: The Future of AI Governance". arXiv: 2304.04914 [cs.AI].
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