Avery W. Katz
Milton Handler Professor of Law; Vice Dean
| Office: |
911 Jerome Greene Hall
435 West 116th Street
New York NY 10027
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| Tel: |
212-854-0066 |
| Email: |
ak472@columbia.edu |
Assistant Info
Areas of Expertise
- Contracts
- Commercial law
- Sales
- Secured transactions
- Payment systems
- Regulation and public policy
Education
- B.A., Michigan, 1980
- M.A., 1983
- J.D., 1985
- Ph.D., economics, Harvard, 1986
Detailed Biography
Joined Columbia faculty in 2000. Assistant professor of economics, 1986-93; assistant professor of law, 1987-93; and professor of law, 1993-94, at the University of Michigan. Professor of law, 1995-99, and director, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, 1998-99, at Georgetown University Law Center. Olin Faculty Research fellow, Yale, 1990; visiting professor of law at Georgetown in 1992 and 1994; visiting professor of law at Columbia in 1998; scholar in residence, New York University School of Law, 2004. Editor, International Review of Law and Economics; Member, Board of Directors, American Law and Economics Association; Chair, Section on Law and Economics, American Association of Law Schools, 2001. Editorial referee for various legal and economic journals and scholarly presses; member of advisory board, Contracts and Commercial Law Abstracts.
Publications
Publications include "The Economics of Promissory Estoppel in Preliminary Negotiations," Yale Law Journal (1996); "Taking Private Ordering Seriously," University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1996); "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Economics," Michigan Law Review (1996); Foundations of the Economic Approach to Law (Foundation Press, 1998); "Standard Form Contracts" and "Contract Formation and Interpretation," in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (ed. P. Newman, 1998); "An Economic Analysis of the Guaranty Contract," University of Chicago Law Review (1999); "Indemnity of Legal Fees," in The International Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (ed. B. Bouckaert and G. DeGeest, 2000); "Informality as a Bilateral Assurance Mechanism", Michigan Law Review (2000); "The Economics of Form and Substance in Contract Interpretation," Columbia Law Review (2004); "The Option Element in Contracting," Virginia Law Review (2004). Current research focuses on contracts and commercial law; current teaching includes contracts, commercial law, sales, secured transactions, payment systems, and regulation and public policy.
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