Albert H. Choi
Professor of Law
University of Virginia Law School
Contact
Information
School of Law
University of Virginia
580 Massie Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903-1738
(434) 924-4709 (direct)
(434) 924-7536 (fax)
(434) 924-4701 (assistant Diane Cronk)
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), Yale Law Journal 119:5, 848 – 924, 2010
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
Should Consumers be Permitted to Waive Products Liability? Product Safety, Private Contracts, and Adverse Selection (pdf) (with Kathy Spier), updated in July 2011
Research Network Websites
SSRN UVA Law and Economics Research Papers
Teaching
Contracts
Legal Issues in Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance
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
Asian Journal of Law and Economics
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
Personal