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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 law for Quebec
City's largest law firm before entering academia. He also served for
five years on Québec's Human Rights Commission. A 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 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.
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. He
co-authored the first edition of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell
in May 2003. This book digests the Model Rules in
an engaging and often critical fashion. The second edition was
published in 2006. Professor Krauss is now under contract with
West Publications to produce an innovative textbook on Products
Liability in late 2008.
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