Rate My Professor Hilary Buttrick

Hilary Buttrick serves as Associate Dean of Academics and Associate Professor of Business Law at Butler University's Lacy School of Business. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from DePauw University, earned in 1999, and a Juris Doctor from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, obtained in 2002. Before transitioning to academia, Buttrick practiced law for over nine years at Ice Miller LLP starting in 2002, specializing in business litigation with an emphasis on product liability defense, franchise relationships, complex commercial disputes, and litigation avoidance strategies. Her research interests encompass developments in product liability law, consumer protection, and FDA and CPSC product regulation.

At Butler, Buttrick has advanced through key leadership roles, including Interim Dean of the Lacy School of Business in 2020, Chair of the Department of Economics, Law, and Finance from June 2017 to June 2019, and Interim Associate Dean from July 2019 to December 2019. She teaches Business Law and Business Ethics, employing real-world cases, hypotheticals, scenarios, and debates to cultivate critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and effective argumentation in students. Buttrick leads the Lacy School of Business Ethics Series and its podcast channel, contributes to faculty governance revisions, faculty development, accreditation processes, strategic planning, and curricular innovation committees. She serves on the Board of Directors of Tindley Accelerated Schools in Indianapolis. Notable publications include "The Skeleton of a Data Breach: The Ethical and Legal Concerns" (2016), "Pomegranate Juice Can Do THAT? Navigating the Jurisdictional Landscape of Food Health Claim Regulation in a Post-POM Wonderful World" (2016), "A Framework for Ethical AI-HRM Development and Use" (2026, co-authored with Jason Davidson, Ankur Gupta, and Jerry Schnepp), "SAY WHAT?! When ChatGPT Gets it Wrong: EXAMINING GENERATIVE AI, SECTION 230 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT, AND THE ESSENCE OF CREATIVITY" (2023), and several editions of "Survey of Recent Developments in Indiana Product Liability Law" (2011, 2017, 2018).