Curriculum vitae of 3615 Frostmeadow Ct.
Stuart Buck Katy, TX 77450
281-898-5331 (cell)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Laura and John Arnold Foundation Houston, TX, Current
Vice President of Research Integrity
Board of Directors, Center for Healthcare Transparency
Current
University of Arkansas Law School Fayetteville, AR, Fall 2010
Adjunct Lecturer
· Taught Education Law class
University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR, 2008-09
Research Associate, Dept. of Education Reform
· Co-authored scholarly articles and research reports on education policy.
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel Washington, DC
Associate 2004-08
· Represented Fortune 100 companies in complex administrative cases before state regulatory commissions and federal courts.
Hughes & Luce Dallas, TX
Associate 2002 to 2003
· Represented clients in securities, telecommunications, and tax cases.
· Drafted the cert petition for Ballard v. Commissioner, 544 U.S. 40 (2005).
Hon. Stephen F. Williams D.C. Circuit
Law Clerk 2001-02
Hon. David A. Nelson Sixth Circuit
Law Clerk 2000-01
University of Georgia Athens, GA
Research and Teaching Assistant 1995-97
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Education Policy, University of Arkansas 2012
· Dissertation on the legal issues surrounding state pension reform.
· Studied econometrics, statistics, program evaluation and design, the economics of education, accountability, measurement of educational outcomes, education policy, education law, and school choice.
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School 2000
· Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1998-2000
Master of Music, with highest honors, University of Georgia 1997
Bachelor of Music, University of Georgia 1995
· First Honor Graduate (4.0 GPA).
· National Finalist (classical guitar), 1994 American String Teachers Association Competition.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
· McKiernan et al., “How open science helps researchers succeed,” eLife (2016), available at https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16800v1.
· B. A. Nosek et al., “Promoting an open research culture,” Science 348 n. 6242 (26 June 2015): 1422-1425, available at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1422.full.pdf?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=ha1o5D9wvW4ZQ.
· Stuart Buck, “Solving reproducibility,” Science 348 n. 6242 (26 June 2015): 1043, available at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1403.full.
· Stuart Buck, “Where Social Science Goes Wrong,” Translational Criminology (Fall 2014): 28-29, available at http://cebcp.org/wp-content/TCmagazine/TC7-Fall2014.
· Daniel H. Bowen, Stuart Buck, Jonathan N. Mills, and James V. Shuls, “Risky Business: An Experimental Analysis of Teacher Risk Preferences.” Education Economics 23 no. 4 (2014): 470-80.
· Stuart Buck, “Estimating the Effects of Principal Quality and Experience.” Working paper (2012).
· Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene, “Blocked, Diluted, and Co-opted: Interest groups wage war against merit pay,” Education Next 11 no. 2 (2011), available at http://educationnext.org/blocked-diluted-and-co-opted/.
· Acting White (Yale University Press, 2010). Available at http://www.amazon.com/Acting-White-Ironic-Legacy-Desegregation/dp/0300123914/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299368830&sr=8-2.
· Jay P. Greene, Jonathan N. Mills, and Stuart Buck, “The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program’s Effect on School Integration.” Working paper, 2010, available at http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/SCDP/Milwaukee_Eval/Report_20.pdf.
· Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene, “Blocking, Diluting, and Co-opting Merit Pay,” Working paper, Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2010. Available at http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/MeritPayPapers/Greene_Buck_10-14.pdf.
· Josh Barro and Stuart Buck, “Underfunded Teacher Pensions: It’s Worse Than You Think,” Manhattan Institute Civic Report 61 (April 2010), available at http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_61.htm.
· Stuart Buck, “Trouble Brewing: The Disaster of California State Pensions,” Foundation for Educational Choice (2010), available at http://www.edchoice.org/CMSModules/EdChoice/FileLibrary/587/Trouble-Brewing---The-Disaster-of-California-State-Pensions.pdf.
· Stuart Buck, Gary W. Ritter, Nathan C. Jensen, and Caleb P. Rose, “Teachers Say the Most Interesting Things — An Alternative View of Testing,” Phi Delta Kappan 91 no. 6 (2010): 50-54.
· Stuart Buck and Jay Greene. “The Case for Special Education Vouchers.” Education Next 10 no. 1 (2009), available at http://educationnext.org/the-case-for-special-education-vouchers/.
· Gary W. Ritter, Robert A. Maranto, and Stuart Buck. “Harnessing private incentives in public education.” Review of Public Personnel Administration, 29 no. 3 (2009).
· Stuart Buck and Gary Ritter, “Putting ‘Teaching to the Test’ to the Test: Is This Really a Problem in Arkansas?,” Arkansas Education Reports 6 no. 1 (2009), available at http://www.uark.edu/ua/oep/AER/6_1_Putting_Teaching_to_the_Test_to_the_Test.pdf.
· “The Common Law and the Environment in the Courts,” 58 Case Western L. Rev. 621 (2008).
· “TELRIC vs. Universal Service: A Takings Violation?,” 56 Fed. Comm. L.J. 1 (2003).
· “Salerno vs. Chevron: What to Do About Statutory Challenges,” 55 Admin. L. Rev. 427 (2003).
· “Replacing Spectrum Auctions with a Spectrum Commons,” 2 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 2 (2002).
· Stuart Buck and Bruce Yandle, “Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Global Warming Battle,” 26 Harv. Envt’l L. Rev. 177 (2002).
· Stuart Buck and Mark Rienzi, “Federal Courts, Overbreadth, and Vagueness: Guiding Principles for Constitutional Challenges to Uninterpreted State Statutes,” 2002 Utah L. Rev. 381.
NON-SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
· “Why Journalists Should Stop Publishing Studies Conducted With Mice.” Laura and John Arnold Foundation Blog (April 8, 2016), available at http://www.arnoldfoundation.org/stop-publishing-mouse-studies/.
· “Data Sharing Should Be In Everyone’s Interest,” Health Affairs Blog (Mar. 10, 2016), available at http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/03/10/data-sharing-should-be-in-everyones-interest/.
· “The FDA Could Earn Over $60 Million A Day From Enforcing The Law,” Health Affairs Blog (Oct. 24, 2015), available at http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/10/14/the-fda-could-earn-over-60-million-a-day-from-enforcing-the-law/.
· “Death by Flatulence and Other Shortcomings of Big Data,” Scientific American Blog (July 14, 2015), available at http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/death-by-flatulence-and-other-shortcomings-of-big-data/.
· “Sharing data from past clinical trials,” BMJ Blogs (Jan. 30, 2015), available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/08/15/stuart-buck-are-scholars-or-journalists-more-to-blame-when-correlation-and-causation-are-confused/.
· “’Evidence-based’ Philanthropy Gone Wrong: The Myth of How Small Schools Failed,” Inside Philanthropy (22 Dec. 2014), available at http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/12/22/evidence-based-philanthropy-gone-wrong-the-myth-of-how-small.html.
· “Are scholars or journalists more to blame when correlation and causation are confused?,” BMJ Blogs (Aug. 15, 2014), available at http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/08/15/stuart-buck-are-scholars-or-journalists-more-to-blame-when-correlation-and-causation-are-confused/.
· “College-Level Confusion,” Slate (Aug. 6, 2014), available at http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/do_children_who_graduate_from_college_really_make_their_parents_live_longer.html.
· “Black School, White School: Racism and Educational (Mis)Leadership,” book review, Teachers College Record (Oct. 19, 2012), available at http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16903.
· “HB 1893: Opening Doors to Better Teachers and Better Education in Arkansas,” Advance Arkansas Institute (Mar. 22, 2011), available at http://www.advancearkansas.org/storage/teachliceweb.pdf.
· Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck, “Small gains add up,” New York Post (Nov. 10, 2010), available at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/small_gains_add_up_8xfWC2jfltKobIHF6rJ7TM.
· “Trouble Brewing in Los Angeles,” Foundation for Educational Choice Policy Brief (Oct. 6, 2010), available at http://www.edchoice.org/Research/Reports/Brief---Trouble-Brewing-in-Los-Angeles.aspx.
· “Trouble Brewing in Orange County,” Foundation for Educational Choice Policy Brief (Oct. 6, 2010), available at http://www.edchoice.org/Research/Reports/Brief---Trouble-Brewing-in-Orange-County.aspx.
· “Trouble Brewing in San Diego,” Foundation for Educational Choice Policy Brief (Oct. 6, 2010), available at http://www.edchoice.org/Research/Reports/Brief---Trouble-Brewing-in-San-Diego.aspx.
· “Trouble Brewing in San Francisco,” Foundation for Educational Choice Policy Brief (Oct. 6, 2010), available at http://www.edchoice.org/Research/Reports/Brief---Trouble-Brewing-in-San-Francisco.aspx.
· Gary Ritter, Stuart Buck, Nate Jensen, and Caleb Rose, “Teachers like these tests – really!,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (April 11, 2010).
· Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck, “Where the Unemployment Isn’t,” National Review (Jan. 6, 2010), available at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/228892/where-unemployment-isnt/jay-p-greene.
· Gary Ritter and Stuart Buck, “Go Ahead: Teach to the Test,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (April 26, 2009), available at http://www.uark.edu/ua/oep/OpEds/2009_Go_Ahead_Teach_to_the_Test.pdf.
· Stuart Buck, Nathan Gray, and Robert Maranto, “Obama’s War on Alexis de Tocqueville,” Philadelphia Bulletin (April 20, 2009).
· Robert Maranto, Gary Ritter, Sandra Stotsky, and Stuart Buck, “In Picking Duncan as Schools Chief, Obama Sides with Kids,” Independence Institute editorial (Jan. 5, 2009), available at http://old.i2i.org/main/article.php?article_id=1568&print=1.
· Stuart Buck and Robert Maranto, “For putting children first, Obama gets an A,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Dec. 22, 2008), available at http://www.educatearkansas.com/view/176.
PRESENTATIONS
· Panelist, APPAM Annual Conference, November 2016.
· Panelist, Global Biological Standards Institute Conference, September 2016.
· Panelist, Effective Altruism Conference, August 2016.
· Panelist, ENAR Biostatistics Conference, March 2016.
· Lecture on reproducibility in science, Johns Hopkins University epidemiology department, February 2016.
· Panelist, APPAM Annual Conference, Miami, FL, Nov. 2015.
· University of Chicago Summer Institute on Field Experiments, panelist, July 2015. See https://bfi.uchicago.edu/events/university-chicago-summer-institute-field-experiments.
· “Replication Consultation,” International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Washington DC, May 2015.
· “Improving Public Programs: Advanced Analytics for Better Decision Making,” panel at Mathematica Center for Improving Research Evidence, May 2015. See https://cire.mathematica-mpr.com/events/cire-forum-improving-public-programs-may-2015.
· “Supporting Evidence-Based Crime Policy,” presentation at Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy Symposium, June 2014.
· “Pension Reform Litigation: An Update,” invited lecture at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Civic Federation of Chicago conference, April 2014.
· Panelist, Forming New Partnerships in Policy Decision Making: Firsthand Lessons from Establishing and Maintaining School District-University Research Alliances, Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference, March 2014.
· “Pension Reform in the Face of Legal Challenges,” invited lecture at National Conference of State Legislatures, Atlanta, GA, August 14, 2013.
· Panelist and organizer, “New Methods of Estimating Principal Quality.” Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 8-10, 2012.
· Panelist, Teacher Pensions, Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference, March 2012.
· Invited to speak in six cities on behalf of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, Sept./Oct. 2011.
· Panelist, Civil Rights and the K-through-12 Education Reform Agenda, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, July 26, 2011.
· Panelist, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Briefing on Federal Enforcement of Civil Rights Laws Protecting Students Against Bullying, Violence and Harassment, May 13, 2011. Video available here: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/RaceRelig.
· Speaker, Issues in Transition to Pension Reform, University of Arkansas, April 15, 2011.
· Panelist, Teacher Pensions, Association for Education Finance and Policy, Seattle, WA, Mar. 25, 2010.
· Panelist, New Debates on Racial Segregation in Charter Schools -- What Do We Know Now?, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Nov. 5, 2010.
· Panelist, State Policy Network Conference, Cleveland, OH, Sept. 14, 2010 (presented work on pension underfunding).
· Panelist, Merit Pay: Will It Work? Is It Politically Viable?, Conference sponsored by Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance, June 3-4, 2010.
· Press conference, National Press Club, April 13, 2010 (presented work on pension underfunding).
· Lecture, University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2008.
· Panelist, Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?, Conference at Stanford Law School, Mar. 1-2, 2003.
REVIEWER
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