Albert H. Choi
Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
Austin Wakeman Scott Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
Contact
Information
2009-10 Academic
Year
Harvard Law School
Areeda Hall 229
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-3168 (direct)
(617) 496-4865 (fax)
(617) 496-2028 (assistant Claire Riley)
Permanent
School of Law
University of Virginia
580 Massie Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903-1789
(434) 924-4709 (direct)
(434) 924-7536 (fax)
albert.choi@virginia.edu
Research
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) (MS word)
Publications
Strategic Vagueness in Contract Design: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions (pdf), (with George Triantis), forthcoming in Yale Law Journal
A Rent Extraction Theory of Right of First Refusal (pdf), Journal of Industrial Economics 57:2, 252 – 264, 2009
Completing Contracts in the Shadow of Costly Verification (pdf) (with George Triantis), Journal of Legal Studies 37:2, 503 – 534, 2008
Optimal Agency Contracts: The Effect of Vicarious Liability and Judicial Error (pdf) (with Juan Carlos Bisso), International Review of Law and Economics 28:3, 166 – 174, 2008
A Critique of the Odious Debt Doctrine (pdf) (with Eric Posner), Law and Contemporary Problems 70:3, 33 – 51, 2007
Successor Liability and Asymmetric Information (pdf), American Law and Economics Review 9:2, 408 – 434, 2007
Should Plaintiffs Win What Defendants Lose? Litigation Stakes, Litigation Effort, and the Benefits of Decoupling (pdf) (with Chris Sanchirico), Journal of Legal Studies 33:2, 323 – 354, 2004
Golden
Parachute as a Compensation Shifting Mechanism (pdf), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
20:1, 170 – 191, 2004
Allocating Settlement Authority under a Contingent Fee Arrangement (pdf), Journal of Legal Studies 23:2, 585 – 610, 2003
Works in Progress (tentatively titled)
The Parol Evidence Rule, Information Disclosure, and the Value of an Oral Promise (pdf), updated in October 2008
Shrink-Wraps: Who Should Bear the Cost of Communicating Mass-Market Contract Terms? (pdf) (with Yeon-Koo Che), updated in April 2009
Research Network Websites
Social Science Research Network Author's Page
Berkeley Electronic Press UVA Law and Economics Working Papers
Teaching
Contracts
Legal Issues in Corporate Finance
Economic Analysis of Contract Law: Seminar
Links
Law and Economics Associations
American Law and Economics Association
Asian Law and Economics Association
European Association of Law and Economics
Korean Law and Economics Association
Law and Economics
Journals
American Law and Economics Review
International Review of Law and Economics
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
UVA Links
UVA Law School Faculty Bio Page
UVA John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
Harvard Links
Harvard Law School Faculty Bio Page
Personal