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E-Mail:
gmc3y@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3814

Office: WB171A

Secretary/Assistant:
Crystal Smith

    Subjects:
    Contracts, professional responsibility, agency and partnership, law and economics, class action abuse


    George M. Cohen

    Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law
    Barron F. Black Research Professor of Law
    J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1986
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992
    B.A., Yale University, 1982

    George Cohen joined the faculty in 1993 as an associate professor of law after a one-year visit to the Law School. He became a full professor in 1995. He teaches contracts, professional responsibility, and agency and partnership.  He has also taught antitrust and law and economics.

    A summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, Cohen earned his J.D. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania. During law school, he served as articles editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Cohen was a clerk to the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Wilmington, DE, before joining the law faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988.

    Cohen is a member of the American Law and Economics Association and has served as an ethics consultant and expert for several law firms.




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