Gregory Klass
Associate Dean, Research and Academic Programs, Professor of Law
B.A., Carleton; M.A., Ph.D., New School for Social Research; J.D., Yale
Areas of Expertise:
Contracts, Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Professor Gregory Klass received his BA from Carleton College, a PhD in philosophy from The Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and...
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Professor Gregory Klass received his BA from Carleton College, a PhD in philosophy from The Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and his JD from Yale Law School. After graduating from law school, Professor Klass clerked for Guido Calabresi on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Before coming to Georgetown, he served as an Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the New York State Attorney General.
Professor Klass’s scholarship focuses on contract law and legal theory. He has written on fraud liability between contracting parties, remedies for bad faith breach and other noncooperative behavior, intent to contract requirements, the relationship between contract law and extra-legal norms, and the general theory of contract law. In 2006 Professor Klass was awarded the Scribes Book Award for Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent, which he co-authored with Ian Ayres.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (Gregory Klass, George Letsas & Prince Saprai, eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming).
- Gregory Klass, Efficient Breach Is Dead; Long Live Efficient Breach, in The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (Gregory Klass, George Letsas & Prince Saprai, eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass & Kathryn Zeiler, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, Interpretation and Construction in Altering Rules, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Books
- Gregory Klass, Contract Law in the United States (Alphen aan den Rijn, Neth.: Kluwer Law International 2d ed. 2012). [BOOK]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (Gregory Klass, George Letsas & Prince Saprai, eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming).
- Gregory Klass, Efficient Breach Is Dead; Long Live Efficient Breach, in The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (Gregory Klass, George Letsas & Prince Saprai, eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass & Kathryn Zeiler, Against Endowment Theory: Experimental Economics and Legal Scholarship, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, Interpretation and Construction in Altering Rules, (working paper). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
Books
- Gregory Klass, Contract Law in the United States (Alphen aan den Rijn, Neth.: Kluwer Law International 2d ed. 2012). [BOOK]
- Gregory Klass, Ian Ayres, Edward J. Murphy & Richard E. Speidel, Studies in Contract Law (New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press 8th ed. 2012). [BOOK]
- Gregory Klass, Contract Law in the USA (Alphen aan den Rijn, Neth.: Kluwer Law International 2010). [BOOK]
- Gregory Klass & Ian Ayres, Insincere Promises: The Law of Misrepresented Intent (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2005). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Gregory Klass, Meaning, Purpose and Cause in the Law of Deception, 100 Geo. L.J. 449-496 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Gregory Klass, Promise Etc., 45 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 695-717 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Gregory Klass, To Perform or Pay Damages, 98 Va. L. Rev. 143-158 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Gregory Klass & Michael Holt, Implied Certification Under the False Claims Act, 41 Pub. Cont. L.J. 1-55 (2011). [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, Intent to Contract, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1437-1503 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, A Conditional Intent to Perform, 15 Legal Theory 107-147 (2009). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, Three Pictures of Contract: Duty, Power, and Compound Rule, 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1726-1783 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, Contracting for Cooperation in Recovery, 117 Yale L.J. 2-68 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass & Ian Ayres, New Rules for Promissory Fraud, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 957-971 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, The Very Idea of a First Amendment Right Against Compelled Subsidization, 38 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1087-1139 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass & Ian Ayres, Promissory Fraud Without Breach, 2004 Wis. L. Rev. 507-533 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Gregory Klass, A Framework for Reading Kant on Apperception: Seven Interpretive Questions, 94 Kant-Studien 80 (2003).
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Gregory Klass, Intent to Contract, in Randy E. Barnett, Perspectives on Contract Law 317 (New York: Aspen Publishers 4th ed. 2009).
- Gregory Klass, The Very Idea of a First Amendment Right Against Compelled Subsidization, in First Amendment Law Handbook: 2005-2006 ed. 726 (Rodney A. Smolla ed., St. Paul, Minn.: Thompson-West 2005).
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