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 and Economics

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

Journal of Legal Studies

Review of Law and Economics

Supreme Court Economic Review

UVA Links

UVA Law School Faculty Bio Page

UVA Economics

UVA Law School

UVA John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics

Harvard Links

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School Faculty Bio Page

Personal

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Wikipedia