Charles J. Goetz joined the University of Virginia Law Faculty in 1975 and held the Joseph M. Hartfield Chair from 1982 until taking Emeritus status in 2006. In 1998, he was also named Harrison Foundation Research Professor of Law and served until 2002, when he semi-retired to a halftime faculty position. Prior to coming to UVA, he was Professor of Economics and Director of the doctoral program in Economics at Virginia Tech. Prof. Goetz received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Providence College in 1961. He pursued doctoral studies in economics at the University of Virginia, where he was a student of Nobel laureates James M. Buchanan (Goetz's dissertation director) and Ronald Coase and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon finishing his Ph.D. work in June, 1964, Goetz was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship and spent the 1964-65 academic year at the University of Pavia, Italy, where he learned to speak a passable Italian. After two years at the University of Illinois Department of Economics, he joined the Virginia Tech economics faculty in 1967. Prof. Goetz has published many scholarly articles in both economics and law. Since joining the Law faculty, his interests have focused on contract law and general Law and Economics applications. He is the author of the casebook Law and Economics. He has co-authored, with Fred S. McChesney, an antitrust textbook entitled Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation. He is currently working on the manuscript of Modern Methods of Proof, a book about types of complex scientific and technical evidence that typically reach the courtroom through expert testimony. Goetz has had wide experience as a forensic economist and consultant on commercial litigation cases and occasionally serves as an expert witness. He has worked on cases ranging from the $6 billion International Uranium Cartel litigation to small cases done on a pro bono basis. Prof. Goetz is also a regular lecturer in continuing legal education programs for both the judiciary and the bar. As a lecturer for over 20 years in the LEC’s Economics Program for Judges, he as had a substantial fraction of the federal judiciary as students. At Virginia Law, Goetz brought his scholarly and practice expertise into the classroom, regularly teaching in the areas of Contracts, Antitrust, Law and Economics, and Methods of Proof (scientific and technical evidence). He has also taught Commercial Litigation and State-Local Government Law. Prof. Goetz's hobbies are computers and running. Although retired from competitive running for many years now, he formerly held the Masters state record for Virginia at the 5000 meters distance. |
