Associate Dean, Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason School of Law: Executive Director, George Mason Law & Economics Center,
Visiting Professor Fall 2006.

George Mason Law & Economics Center,
3301 North Fairfax Drive,
Arlington, Virginia 22201-4498

Former Positions
- 1999-2001, Visiting Professor, Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)
- 1988-89, Visiting Olin Fellow, University of Chicago Law School
- 1984-89, Associate Professor, McGill University
- 1982-84, Associate, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, Ontario
- 1977-82, Assistant Professor, McGill University
- 1976-77, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Articles, Blake, Cassels & Graydon

Degrees
- B.A., LL.B. (McGill, 1969 and 1974)
- LL.M. (Harv., 1975)

Publications

1. Books

- Just Exchange: A Theory of Contract (London: Routledge, 2005)

- The Morality of Laughter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, April 1, 2003), reviewed in Wall Street Journal, New Criterion, National Post, National Review, Weekly Standard, Crisis, First Things, Arts-and-Letters Daily

- The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (ed.) (Durham: Duke U.P., 1999)

- Corporations: Principles and Policies (3d ed. with M. Gillen & R. Yalden), (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery Publishing Ltd., 1995)

- Corporations: Principles and Policies (2d ed. with M.Q. Connelly), (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery Publishing Ltd., 1989)

- Corporations: Cases, Texts and Materials (1st ed. with M.Q. Connelly), (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery Publishing Ltd., 1984)

- Supplement to Canadian Securities Regulation with D.L. Johnston, P. Dey & D. Drinkwater) (Toronto: Butterworth Pub. Co., 1982)

- Sales and Sales Financing in Canada (with M.G. Bridge) (Toronto: Carswell Publishing Co., 1981)

2. Scholarly Articles & Reviews
- Review of Shake Hands with the Devil, Crisis Magazine, March 2005.
- Review of I Am Charlotte Simmons, Crisis Magazine, January 2005.
- Review of Father Joe, Crisis Magazine, September 2004.
- Perfectionism, Supreme Court Economic Review (fall 2004)
- Review of The Terry Teachout Reader, Crisis Magazine (June 2004)
- Are Emotions Rational?, New Criterion (January 2004)
- The Market for Laughter, in The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior (Vernon Smith & Francesco Parisi, ed.) (forthcoming University of Chicago Press, 2004)
- His Secret Life, New Criterion (October 2003)
- Machine Law, 6 The Green Bag 359 (2003)
- Acceptable Prejudice, Crisis Magazine, July/August 2003
- Nationalism, Encyclopedia of Public Choice (2003)
- A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, Crisis Magazine, March 2003.
- The Satirist of the Fall (review of Evelyn Waugh), Crisis Magazine, January 2003
- Behind the Wall (review of Philip Hambuger, Separation of Church and State), Crisis Magazine, December 2002
- An American Tragedy (the films of John Ford), Crisis Magazine, October 2002
- The Prince of This World (review of Georges Bernanos, Under Satan’s Sun) (Crisis Magazine, July 2002)
- Politics and Mystique (review of Charles Peguy, Temporal and Eternal) (Crisis Magazine, May 2002)
- In Praise of the Hidden (review of George Steiner, Grammars of Creation) (Crisis Magazine, March 2002)
- The Debtor as Victim, 87 Cornell L. Rev. 1078 (2002)
- Calling a Truce in the Marriage Wars, (2001) U. Ill. L. Rev. 561 (with Larry Ribstein)
- Liberal Nationalism, 48 UCLA Law Rev. 221 (2000)
- The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax, 11 Constitutional Political Economy 295 (2000) (with Eric Rasmusen)
- Culture and Liberty, 19 Quinnipiac Law Rev. 665 (2000)
- Is the Ugly Duckling a Fairy Tale? The Law and Economics of Child Abuse (with Margaret F. Brinig), 1 Journal of Law and Family Relations 1 (1999)
- Introduction, in F.H. Buckley (ed.), The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (Duke U.P 1999)
- Free Bargaining in Bankruptcy, in F.H. Buckley (ed.), The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract (Duke U.P 1999)
- No-Fault Laws and At-Fault People, (with Margaret F. Brinig), 18 Int. Rev. Law & Econ. 325 (1998)
- The Price of Virtue, 98 Public Choice 111 (1998)
- Marriage and Homosexuals, in AIt Takes Two: The Family in Law and Finance@ (Douglas W. Allen & John Richards eds.) (Toronto: C.D. Howe, 1999)
- The Philosophy of Immigration, 94 Public Choice 423 (1998)
- The Bankruptcy Puzzle (with Margaret F. Brinig), 27 J. Legal Stud. 187 (1998)
- Joint Custody: Monitoring and Bonding Theories (with Margaret F. Brinig), 73 Ind. L.J. 393 (1998)
- The Market for Migrants, in J. Bhandari & A. Sykes (ed.), Economic Dimensions in International Law: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives 405 Cambridge U.P. (1997)
- The Canadian Keiretsu, 9 J. App. Corp. Fin. 46 (1997)
- Welfare Magnets: The Race for the Top (with Margaret F. Brinig), 5 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 141 (1997)
- The Political Economy of Immigration Policies, 16 Int. Rev. Law & Econ. 81 (1996)
- The Market for Deadbeats (with Margaret F. Brinig), 25 J. Legal Stud. 201 (1996)
- After Virtue, Law, in Digby Anderson (ed.), This Will Hurt: The Restoration of Virtue and Civic Order 13 (National Review Books 1995)
- The American Fresh Start, 4 So. Cal. Interdisciplinary L.J. 67 (1995)
- The American Stay, 3 So. Cal. Interdisciplinary L.J. 733 (1994)
- The Canadian Private Receivership, in J. Ziegel (ed.), Current Developments in International and Comparative Corporate Insolvency Law 473, Oxford U.P. (1994)
- A Corporate Governance Theory of Repossessory Rights, 23 Can. Bus. L.J. 96 (1994).
- The Revival of Sociological Jurisprudence, 22 J. of Socio-Economics 187 (1993)
- The Termination Decision, 61 U.M.K.C. L. Rev. 243 (1992)
- The Divestiture Decision, 16 J. Corp. Law 805 (1992)
- Three Theories of Substantive Fairness, 19 Hofstra L. Rev. 33 (1991)
- When the Medium is the Message: Corporate Buybacks as Signals, 65 Indiana L.J. 493-547 (1990)
- Paradox Lost, 72 Minnesota Law Review 775-827 (1988)
- The Bankruptcy Priority Puzzle, 72 Virginia Law Review 1393-1470 (1986)
- Small Issuers Under The Ontario Securities Act, 1978: A Plea for Exemptions, 29 University of Toronto Law Journal 309-65 (1979)
- How To Do Things with Inside Information, 2 Can. Bus. L.J. 343-63 (1978)
- Ratification and the Derivative Action Under the Ontario Business Corporations Act, 22 McGill Law Journal 167-202 (1976)