William Novak

Bill Novak is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University Michigan. He teaches in the fields of legal history, legislation, and regulation, and his research interests focus on the history of the modern American regulatory state. He is the author of New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State and The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (1996) and coeditor of The Democratic Experiment with Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer (2003). Most recently, he coedited a volume on the Boundaries of the State in U.S. History with Jim Sparrow and Steve Sawyer (2015), in addition The Corporation and American Democracy with Naomi Lamoreaux. He continues to work on his own monographic research project, "The Creation of the Modern American State."