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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. A former
Salvatori
Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and an academic fellow of the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Professor Krauss sits on the
advisory boards of several think tanks. 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, and is currently a member
of the Board of Governors of the National Association of Scholars. In
2008 he was elected to full membership in the American Law Institute.
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 edition of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell
in May 2003 and the second edition in 2006. Professor Krauss is
under contract with
West Publications to produce an innovative textbook on Products
Liability, and is also working on a book about abortion.
Professor Krauss is on leave during the
Spring semester (Jan-June 2010), spending this period as a Visiting
Professor of Tort Theory at the University
of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University (where he has been named a
Madison
Fellow), and the University of Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon.
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