Professor Gregory Klass received his BA from Carleton College, a Ph.D. 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, the law of deception, and legal theory. He has written on topics such as contract interpretation, consumer contracts, fraud liability between contracting parties, false advertising law, and contract theory.

Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Ian Ayres & Gregory Klass, How to Use the Restatement of Consumer Contracts: A Guide for Judges, 15 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 363-385 (2025). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Gregory Klass, Two Forms of Formalism in Contract Law, 46 Cardozo L. Rev. 369-431 (2024). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [W] [L] [SSRN]

Book Chapters & Collected Works

Gregory Klass, Misrepresentation, in Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law 386-389 (Mindy Chen-Wishart & Prince Saprai eds., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Edward Elgar 2025). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]
Gregory Klass, What Might Contract Theory Be?, in Understanding Private Law: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Smith 181-194 (Evan Fox-Decent, John C. P. Goldberg & Lionel Smith eds., Oxford: Hart Publishing 2025). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]

Forthcoming Works - Book Chapters & Collected Works

Gregory Klass, Disclosure, in Oxford Handbook of Regulatory Contract Law (Yesim Atamer & Alexander Hellgardt eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming). [Gtown Law] [SSRN]
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