George M. Cohen

About

George M. Cohen is the Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He joined the faculty in 1993 as an associate professor after a one-year visit to the law school and became a full professor in 1995. Cohen teaches courses in contracts, professional responsibility, agency, and partnership, and has also taught antitrust and law and economics. His academic background includes a B.A. from Yale University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, as well as a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. During law school, he served as articles editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Cohen has clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and has served as an ethics consultant and expert for several law firms. His scholarly work includes books, textbooks, book chapters, articles, and reports focusing on legal ethics, law and economics, agency law, and contract law, with notable contributions to the understanding of legal and ethical issues faced by lawyers in practice.

Research topics

• Law
• Political science
• Business
• Law and economics
• Economics

Selected publications

• An Evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad: A Community Driven Governance Programme in Somalia/Somaliland

  Durham Research Online (Durham University) · 2015-09-01 · 7 citations

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  The report presents the results of an evaluation of Hogaan iyo Nabad, a Community
\nDriven Reconstruction (CDR) programme in Somaliland and Somalia.The programme
\nwas funded by DFID and implemented by CARE, DRC and IRC, and aimed at strengthening local governance in rural and rather remote districts in Somaliland (Erigabo) and
\nPuntland (Galkayo and Burtinle). To work towards making local government more responsive, accountable and effective, the programme aimed to achieve two outc…

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• In Hell There Will Be Lawyers Without Clients or Law

  2000-09-21 · 7 citations

  book-chapterOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract More than twenty years ago, moral philosopher Richard Wasserstrom framed the debate in legal ethics by asking two questions:1 Does the lawyer’s duty to represent the client zealously, constrained only by the bounds of the law, render the lawyer “at best systematically amoral and at worst more than occasionally immoral in … her dealings with the rest of the world [?]”2 And is the lawyer’s relationship with the client likewise morally tainted in that it generally entails domination by the…

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• Finding Fault with Wonnell's 'Two Contractual Wrongs'

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2000-01-01 · 4 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Interpretation and Implied Terms in Contract Law

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009-09-15 · 3 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  This unique and timely book offers an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive review of the economic literature on contract law.

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• Legal and Ethical Duties of Lawyers after Sarbanes-Oxley

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2004-01-01 · 3 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  This article examines the legal and ethical duties of lawyers after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, focusing in particular on the application, interpretation and ambiguities of the SEC rule governing lawyers implementing Section 307 of the Act. The SEC rule is discussed in the context of lawyers’ general ethical obligations as well as legal obligations under the securities laws. The article advances three major propositions. First, it argues that the SEC’s rule is largely consistent with and reflects th…

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Frequent coauthors

• Susan P. Koniak

  9 shared

• David A. Dana

  3 shared

• Thomas W. Ross

  University of British Columbia

  2 shared

• Helmut Hungerland

  2 shared

• George M. Cohan

  2 shared

• Holcombe M. Austin

  2 shared

• Roger C. Cramton

  Cornell University

  2 shared

• John A. Alford

  2 shared

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