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CONTACT
geis@virginia.edu
(434) 243-2341
Room WB340

ASSISTANT
Valerie Listorti

SUBJECTS
Business law, contract theory, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital

George S. Geis

Vice Dean
Professor of Law
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1998
M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1998
B.S., University of California at Berkeley, 1992

Vice Dean George Geis joined the faculty in 2008, after visiting at the Law School during the 2007-08 academic year. Geis previously taught at the University of Alabama, where he received numerous teaching awards and was selected by the student body as the outstanding faculty member in 2007. He teaches contracts, corporations, agency and partnership, and corporate finance. Geis also is faculty advisor for the J.D.-MBA dual-degree program.

His research focuses on problems related to contract theory, business alliances and other issues involving the intersection of law and business. His work has appeared in the New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Virginia Law Review and several other journals. He is also the co-author of a book on business partnership and alliance strategies published by McGraw-Hill. Geis visits regularly at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, started in conjunction with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Geis spent five years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he served clients on corporate strategy, mergers, marketing and other issues. He has also worked with the law firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles.

Scholarship Profile: Bringing Business Insight to Law (Virginia Journal 2012)
 

Publications


Articles:
"An Appraisal Puzzle," 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1635 (2011).
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"An Empirical Examination of Business Outsourcing Transactions," 96 Va. L. Rev. 241 (2010).
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"Internal Poison Pills,” 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1169 (2009).
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"The Space Between Markets and Hierarchies," 95 Va. L. Rev. 99 (2009).
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"Automating Contract Law," 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 450 (2008).
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“Economics as Context for Contract Law,” 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 569 (2008) (reviewing Victor Goldberg, Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective (2006)).
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"Can Independent Blockholding Really Play Much of a Role in Indian Corporate Governance?" 3 Corp. Governance L. Rev. 283 (2007).
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"Business Outsourcing and the Agency Cost Problem," 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 955 (2007).
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"An Embedded Options Theory of Indefinite Contracts," 90 Minn. L. Rev. 1664 (2006).
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"An Experiment in the Optimal Precision of Contract Default Rules," 80 Tul. L. Rev. 1109 (2006).
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"Empirically Assessing Hadley v. Baxendale," 32 Fl. St. Univ. L. Rev. 897 (2005).
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Books:
Digital Deals: Strategies for Selecting and Structuring Partnerships (McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2001) (Chinese language edition 2002).