Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Research and teaching in taboo and repugnant transactions; organ transplantation; reproductive markets; sex work; contracts; and corporate and financial regulation.
Academic Appointments
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA
Charles O. Gregory Professor of Law 2021–present
Glynn Family Bicentennial Professor of Law 2025–present
Charles O. Gregory Professor of Law 2021–present
Glynn Family Bicentennial Professor of Law 2025–present
Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC
Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law 2011–2021
Professor of Law 2009–2011
Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law 2011–2021
Professor of Law 2009–2011
University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
Professor of Law 2001–2009
Professor of Law 2001–2009
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Associate Professor of Law with Tenure 1997–2001
Associate Professor of Law with Tenure 1997–2001
University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, OK
Assistant Professor of Law 1995–1997
Assistant Professor of Law 1995–1997
Visiting appointments: Harvard Law School (Bruce W. Nichols Visiting
Professor, 2003–2004), Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Northwestern, USC,
and the University of Virginia.
Legal Practice
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY
Associate, Commodity and Derivatives Group 1992–1995; Summer Associate 1991
Associate, Commodity and Derivatives Group 1992–1995; Summer Associate 1991
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
J.D., cum laude 1992
J.D., cum laude 1992
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
B.A., cum laude 1987
B.A., cum laude 1987
Selected Courses
Contracts; Taboo Trades; Repugnant Transactions; Advanced Contracts; Blood Feud; Marijuana Legalization.
Publications
More than 90 books, articles, book chapters, and commentaries. The complete, filterable list is on the Writing page, and full texts for most papers are available on SSRN.
Works in Progress
- Generosity to Donors of Biological Materials: Not Whether but How, with Alvin E. Roth.
- Keep the Ring: Engagement and the Legal Fiction of Conditional Gifts, with Nathan B. Oman.
- Incentivizing Witness Cooperation, with Philip J. Cook and Rachel Harmon.
- Essay on Alvin Roth’s Moral Economics, for OEconomia.
Honors, Awards, Research Chairs & Grants
- Rotating Research Chairs, University of Virginia: Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law (2021–2024); Glynn Family Bicentennial Professor of Law (2025–2028).
- Bass Connections Grant, $18,000, Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation (co-PI) (2014).
- Bass Connections & Kenan Institute for Ethics, $19,500, Living Donor Kidney Transplants and the Good Samaritan (co-PI) (2012).
- Smith Richardson Foundation, $170,000, Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Risk Perceptions, and Regulatory Responses (co-PI) (2011).
- Kenan Institute for Ethics, Senior Research Fellow (2011–present).
- University of North Carolina Pogue Award (2008).
- Corporate Practice Commentator’s Best Corporate and Securities Law Articles of 1999.
- Robert Childres Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University School of Law (1999–2000).
Selected Service & Affiliations
- Editorial Board, Philosophy & Public Affairs (2023–present).
- Affiliated Faculty, Georgetown Blood and Plasma Research Group, Georgetown McDonough School of Business (2025–present).
- Board Member, Rejuvenate Health Care Solutions (2022–present).
- Board of Advisors, One Day Sooner (2020–present).
- AALS Section on Securities Regulation, Chair (2012–2013); Executive Council (2010–2014).
- AALS Section on Business Associations, Chair (2014–2015); Executive Council (2010–2013).
- Peer reviewer for law, economics, bioethics, and risk-regulation journals and presses, including Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Bar Admission
State Bar of New York (admitted 1993).
This is a condensed CV. The complete document is available as a PDF or Word file.