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Tel: 215.573.2155
Office Room: Golkin 244
Email: jkraus@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Contracts
- Commercial Law
- Philosophy of Law
- Jurisprudence
- Law and Economics
- Political Philosophy
Bio
Jody Kraus is David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jody Kraus is David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on the relationship between moral and economic theories of law in general and contract law in particular. An expert on contracts and commercial law, Kraus has published in both law reviews and peer reviewed journals, and testified as an expert in both U.S. and foreign disputes. He is the co-author of a leading contracts casebook, served as the area organizer for the contracts and commercial law section of the American Law and Economics Association, teaches introductory and advanced contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code (sales, secured transactions, and negotiable instruments), creditor’s rights, suretyship, contract theory, philosophy of law and economics, and political philosophy. He is a member of the American Law Institute, the Virginia Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Advisory Board of Legal Theory, the Association of American Law Schools, and the American Philosophical Association.
Kraus was a Woodrow Wilson/Charlotte W. Newcombe doctoral fellow, a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and a senior editor on The Yale Law Journal. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the University of Arizona’s Meritorious Teaching Award and the University of Virginia Law School’s First Year Teaching Award.
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Representative Professional Positions
Visiting Professor – Columbia (2010-2011), Michigan Law School (2009-2010), Tel-Aviv (2009)
Penn Law – David E. Kaufman & Leopold C. Glass Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy (2011- )
University of Virginia Department of Philosophy – Professor (1997-2011)
University of Virginia Law School – Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law (2006-2011); Albert Clark Tate, Jr., Research Professor of Law (2007-2011); Professor of Law (1995-06)
Representative Publications
The Correspondence of Contract and Promise, 109 COLUM. L. REV. 1603 (2009).
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"Personal Sovereignty and Normative Power Skepticism," 109 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 126 (2009).
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Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent, 84 N.Y.U. L. REV. 126 (2009) (with Robert E. Scott).
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From Langdell to Law and Economics: Two Conceptions of Stare Decisis in Contract Law and Theory, 94 VA. L. REV. 157 (2008).
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Legal Determinacy and Moral Justification, (Symposium on Law and Morality), 48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1773 (2007).
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A Critique of the Efficient Performance Hypothesis, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 423 (2007).
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CONTRACT LAW AND THEORY (LexisNexis, 4th ed. 2007) (with Robert E. Scott).
Transparency and Determinacy in Common Law Adjudication: A Philosophical Defense of Explanatory Economic Analysis, 93 Va. L. Rev. 287 (2007).
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Philosophy of Contract Law, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Jules Coleman & Scott Shapiro, eds., 2002).
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THE JURISPRUDENTIAL FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW (Cambridge U. Press, 2000) (ed. with Steven D. Walt).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
American Law Institute, Member, (1995 -)
American Bar Association, (1990 -)
American Law & Economics Association, (2002 -); 2004 Annual Meeting Area Organizer: Contracts and Commercial Law
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