Directories

Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos Harold R. Woodard Professor of Law Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 329 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 274-1825 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: ngeorgak@iupui.edu SSRN Web Page

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 was a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut before moving to Indianapolis. The scion of an old Greek legal family, he began his legal education in his home country, graduating first in his law school, and completed it by studying law and finance at Harvard where he then held a postdoctoral appointment. His doctoral dissertation focused on insider trading, disclosure obligations, and securities fraud. One of the resulting articles was cited by the S.E.C. to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Law & Economics Association, the European Association of Law & Economics, the Am. Econ. Assn., and the Amer. Finance Assn. He is also a founding member of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association and has served as an advisor to the Capital Markets Commission of Greece. He was awarded a John S. Grimes Fellowship in 2002.

His scholarship of over 25 publications focuses on corporate, securities, discrimination, and bankruptcy law, which has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Publications

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

Books and Chapters

Agency, Selected Essays on Current Legal Issues, Frenkel & Gerner-Beule, eds, 2008

BLUMBERG ON CORPORATE GROUPS I-V (2005)

Principles and Methods of Lw and Economics (Cambridge U. Press)

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)

Solutions to the Intractability of Distributional Concerns (33 Rutgers L. Rev. 279-328, 2002)

Bankruptcy for Productivity (37 Wake Forest Law Review 51-96, 2002)

Corporate Defense Law for Dispersed Ownership (30 Hofstra L. Rev. 11-120, 2001)

Independence in the Career and Recognition Judiciary, 7 Chicago Roundtable 205-25 (2000).

Vagueness of Limits and the Distribution of Conducts, 32 Conn. L.Rev. 451-83 (2000).

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).

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).

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).

Why Should Disclosure Rules Subsidize Informed Traders? 16 International Review of Law and Economics 417-31 (1996).

Relative Rank: A Remedy for Subjective Absolute Grades, 29 Conn. L. Rev. 445-57 (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).