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Professor Michael I. Krauss
In 1994, PROFESSOR OF LAW MICHAEL I. KRAUSS became
the law school's first recipient of the university's "Teacher of the
Year" award for his engaging and challenging approach in the classroom.
Born in the United States but raised in Canada, Professor Krauss speaks
legalese in two languages. He earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University,
his LL.B. summa cum laude
from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law
School, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He was Columbia
University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981. He has been
teaching at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law
schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the
Université de Sherbrooke.
Hired as a law clerk by Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of
Canada's Supreme Court, Professor Krauss practiced corporate law for
Québec
City's largest law firm before entering academia. He also served for
five years on Québec's Human Rights Commission. He has served as
president of
the
Virginia Association of Scholars and on the Board of Governors of the
Education Section of the Virginia State Bar, where he is currently a
member of the Legal Education Task Force. He was elected to full
membership in the American Law Institute
in 2008.
Professor Krauss teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and
Jurisprudence, and has a strong interest in national security issues.
His research on torts and ethics is nationally known, and his
Legal Ethics course typically fills up within 90 seconds of enrollment
opening. He
co-authored the first two editions of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell
2003 and 2006. His Principles
of Products Liability
was published by West in 2011.
Professor Krauss was on leave in 2010, spending this period as a
Visiting
Professor of Tort Theory at the University
of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University as a Madison
Fellow, and as a Visiting Professor at the
Université de Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon. He loves
motorcycling across the country almost as much as he loves being a law
professor.
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