Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
gmc3y@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3814
Room WB171A

ASSISTANT
Crystal Smith

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

George M. Cohen

Brokaw Professor of Corporate 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 Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Wilmington, Del., 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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In the Media

"UVA Faculty Senate Still Lacks Confidence in Board of Visitors" (The Washington Post, 03/14/2013)
"UVa students vote to change honor code" (The Daily Progress, 03/04/2013)
"UVA Put on Warning by Accreditation Group" (The Daily Progress, 12/11/2012)
"Anatomy Of A Campus Coup" (The New York Times Magazine, 09/11/2012)
"President Sullivan Greets Faculty At The Darden School And Morven Farm" (Examiner, 08/28/2012)
"UVA President Drama Sways Fundraising" (Associated Press, 08/04/2012)
"The Faculty Factor" (Inside Higher Ed, 07/16/2012)
"University of Virginia Board Reinstates President" (The Virginian-Pilot, 06/27/2012)
"U-Va. Seeks Normalcy after Sullivan Reinstatement, But Questions Linger" (The Washington Post, 06/27/2012)
"UVa's Faculty Leaders Gain New Power After President Is Reinstated" (The Chronicle of Higher Education", 06/27/2012)
"Public Universities Grapple with Money, Technology and Mission" (PBS Newshour, 06/27/2012)
"Month's Events Provide a Jump Start for the Faculty Senate" (UVA Today, 06/27/2012)
"U-Va. Leadership Crisis: Sullivan Allies Claim Momentum to Keep Her as President" (The Washington Post, 06/25/2012)
"Virginia Echoes Harvard as Faculty Rises Up to Rehire President" (Bloomberg Businessweek, 06/25/2012)
"New Meeting is Set on Fate of University President" (The New York Times, 06/21/2012)
"Two Resignations Rock the University of Virginia" (The New York Times, 06/20/2012)
"U-Va.'s Board Should Open Up About President's Ouster" (The Washington Post, 06/12/2012)
"What Will Come of Illinois' False LSAT and GPA Reporting?" (The National Jurist, 10/10/2011)
"Lawyers Question Firm's Decision to Ditch Gay Marriage Case" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 04/27/2011)
"Analysis: NY Suit against Ernst & Young Fills Regulatory Gap" (Reuters, 12/21/2010)
"Forced Pro Bono: But is it Legal?" (Wall Street Journal Law Blog, 09/21/2010)
"Buffett, Moody's CEO Rate a Date on Market Crisis" (Reuters, 05/31/2010)
"Goldman Sachs Should Cut Losses in SEC Standoff" (Bloomberg Businessweek, 04/23/2010)
"How Washington Abetted the Bank Job" (The New York Times, 04/03/2010)
Rating Agencies Lose Free-Speech Claim (Reuters, 09/03/2009)
"A Matter of Opinion?" (New York Times, 07/18/2009)
"Va., Tenn., Among States with No Attorney-Client Sexual Relations Ban" (Bristol Herald-Courier, 03/16/2009)
"In Vioxx Settlement, Testing a Legal Ideal: A Lawyer’s Loyalty" (The New York Times, 01/22/2008)
"AEI on Vioxx" (Blog of Legal Times, 01/07/2008)
"The Vioxx Settlement" (C-SPAN, 01/07/2008)
"Attorney for Refco Accused of Fraud" (Chicago Tribune, 12/19/2007)
"Vioxx Plaintiffs' Choice: Settle or Lose Their Lawyer" (Wall Street Journal, 11/16/2007)
"Prosecutor Previously Represented Vick's Dad" (Newport News Daily Press, 10/26/2007)
"In-House Attorneys, Watch Your Step/The Conviction of Conrad Black's Corporate Counsel Sends a Chilling Message" (BusinessWeek, 08/06/2007)
"New Jitters for In-House Attorneys" (The Informed Reader-WSJ.com, 07/29/2007)
"Refco Fallout May Hit Lawyers/Examiner's Report Suggests Regulation of Professionals Should Be Stronger" (Chicago Tribune, 07/22/2007)
"Bye, Bye Enron, Regulators Say" (CFO via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge, 01/23/2007)
"U.S. Indictment for Big Law Firm in Class Actions" (New York Times, 05/19/2006)
"Airlines Can Legally Meet" (Fort Worth Star-Telegram , 03/10/2006)
"Milberg Weiss Lawyers Face Indictment in Kickbacks Case" (San Diego Union-Tribune, 02/23/2006)