Faculty

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

John V. Ray Research Professor of Law
Director, Program in Law & Business
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1998
M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1998
B.S., University of California at Berkeley, 1992

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 chairs the Law & Business Program and is faculty advisor for the J.D./M.B.A. 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 graduation from the University of Chicago, 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 of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles.

Website: http://works.bepress.com/george_geis/

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