Profile

Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Harold R. Woodard Professor of Law

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 307
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225

Phone: (317) 274-1825
Fax: (317) 278-3326
E-Mail: ngeorgak@iu.edu

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Education

Ptyhion Nomikis, 1987, Athens University School of Law
LL.M.,1988, S.J.D., 1992 Harvard Law School

Courses

Business associations, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy law, securities regulation

Bio

Professor Georgakopoulos produces scholarship in the intersection of business and uncertainty. He is the author of The Logic of Securities Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press); Principles and Methods of Law and Economics (Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005), a coauthor of the multi-volume Blumberg on Corporate Groups, and numerous articles that have received broad citation, including by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

He is active in the American Law Institute, the American Law & Economics Association, and the European Association of Law & Economics. He is also a founding member of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association and has served as an adviser to the Capital Markets Commission of Greece.

Publications

(SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=16468 )

Books and Chapters

• Agency, Selected Essays on Current Legal Issues, Frenkel & Gerner-Beule, eds, 2008
• Principles and Methods of Lw and Economics (Cambridge U. Press)
• BLUMBERG ON CORPORATE GROUPS I-V (2005)
• THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BANKRUPTCY LAW: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW (in Greek, Ant. Sakkoulas-Kluwer Publ., 2000, with an introduction by Prof. E. Perakis of Athens U. Law School).
• Richard A. Posner, CARDOZO: A STUDY IN REPUTATION, Annotated Translation (in Greek, 1997).
• Securities Regulation and Transaction Costs: A Justification for the Reduction of Transaction Costs through Regulation, in Festschrift fur A. Argyriades 317-341 (1995).

Law Review and Journal Articles

• Exploring the Shavellian Boundary: Violations from Judgment-Proofing, Minority Rights, and Signaling (3 Journal of Law, Economics and Policy 47-62, 2006
• Judicial Reaction to Change: The California Supreme Court around the 1986 Elections (13 Cornell J. L. Pub. Policy 405-430, 2004)
• Self-Fulfilling Impressions of Criminality: Unintentional Police Race Profiling (24 Intern'l Rev. of L. & Econ. 169-190, 2004)
• New Value, After LaSalle (20 Bankr. Developments J. 1-24, 2003)
• Bankruptcy for Productivity (37 Wake Forest Law Review 51-96, 2002)
• Solutions to the Intractability of Distributional Concerns (33 Rutgers L. Rev. 279-328, 2002)
• Corporate Defense Law for Dispersed Ownership (30 Hofstra L. Rev. 11-120, 2001)
• Vagueness of Limits and the Distribution of Conducts, 32 Conn. L.Rev. 451-83 (2000).
• Independence in the Career and Recognition Judiciary, 7 Chicago Roundtable 205-25 (2000).
• The Creation of Artificial Demand on the Stock Exchange as Abuse of Confidential Information and Grounds for Liability Pursuant to Presidential Decree 53/92, 47 Nomiko Vima 1381-1403 (1999) (in Greek, with Prof. Emer. Leonidas L. Georgakopoulos).
• Some Errors of §510(b), 16 Bankr. Developments J. 91-122 (1999).
• Meinhard v. Salmon and the Economics of Honor, 1999 Columbia Business L. Rev. 137-64.
• Transitions in Affirmative Action, 19 International Rev. of Law and Econ. 23-32 (1999) (with Colin Read).
• Predictability and Legal Evolution, 17 Int’l Review of Law and Economics 475-89 (1997).
• New Value, Fresh Start, 3 Stanford J. L. Bus. & Fin. 125-68 (1997).
• Relative Rank: A Remedy for Subjective Absolute Grades, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 445-57 (1996).
• Why Should Disclosure Rules Subsidize Informed Traders? 16 International Review of Law and Economics 417-31 (1996).
• Frauds, Markets, and Fraud-on-the-Market: The Tortured Transition of Justifiable Reliance from Common Law Deceit to Securities Fraud, 49 Miami Law Review 671-730 (1995), reprinted in 29 Securities L. Rev. 511 (1997).
• About Partial Borrowing from the American Legal Thought (in Greek), 43 Nomiko Vima 799-807 (1995).
• Insider Trading as a Transaction Cost: A Market Microstructure Justification and Optimization of Insider Trading Regulation, 26 Conn. L. Rev. 1-51 (1993).
• Classical and Cross Insider Trading: Variations on the Theme of Rule 10b-5, 28 Am. Bus. L.J. 109 (1990).
• Comment on the acquisition of prescriptive easements from non-continuous trespasses, 33 Nomiko Vima 1557 (1985).

Essays and Reports

• Bankruptcy for Growth? No more, The Hartford Courant, March 21, 2001, p. A17 (Op-Ed).
• Concept Paper on Judicial Independence, (with other contributors, ABA Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, 1999).