Professor Robertson’s research focuses on how the law can improve decisions by individuals and institutions — attending to informational limits, conflicting interests, institutional racism, and cognitive biases, especially in the domain of healthcare. Blending legal, philosophical, and empirical methods, Robertson’s work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Emory Law Journal, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. He has received research support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the NIH. Robertson’s legal practice has focused on complex litigation involving medical and scientific disputes.
Robertson is author of the 2019 book Exposed: Why our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It (Harvard University Press).
