Biography
George Shepherd
Professor of Law
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Law, Civil Procedure, Education Law, Law and Economics
Biography
George Shepherd was a judicial clerk and practiced law for four years before entering graduate school in economics. Since joining the Emory Law faculty in Fall 1995, he has published, among other papers, "No African-American Lawyers Allowed: The Inefficient Racism of the ABA's Accreditation of Law Schools," Journal of Legal Education (2003); "Words Without Meaning: The Constitution, Confessions, and Mentally Retarded Suspects," with Morgan Cloud, Alison Barkoff and Justin Shur, University of Chicago Law Review (2002), "An Empirical Study of the Economics of Pretrial Discovery," International Review of Law & Economics (1999); "Time and Money: Discovery Leads to Hourly Billing," with Morgan Cloud, University of Illinois Law Review (1999); and "Fierce Compromise: The Administrative Procedure Act Emerges from New Deal Politics," Northwestern Law Review (1996) (winner of the 1997 Award for Scholarship from the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, which honors the year's best paper in administrative law).
In addition, his work on the economic impact of tort reforms has received much attention, including a feature story in the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal also favorably reviewed his book Rejected: Leading Economists Ponder the Publication Process (1995).
Education: BA, Yale University, 1982 (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude); JD, Harvard Law School, 1986 (Cum Laude); PhD (Economics), Stanford University, 2004.
Publications
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The Impacts of the European Rule for Fee-Shifting on Litigation Behavior Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-06, BALANCING OF INTERESTS: LIBER AMICORUM PETER HAY ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG, 2006
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No African-American Lawyers Allowed: The Inefficient Racism of the ABA's Accreditation of Law Schools Emory University School of Law Working Paper 2004
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Time and Money: Discovery Leads to Hourly Billing University of Illinois Law Review 2004
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Defending the Aristocracy: ABA Accreditation and the Filtering of Political Leaders 12 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 637 2003
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Defending the Aristocracy ABA Accreditation and the Filtering of Political Leaders 2003
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U.S. Labor Market Regulation and the Export of Employment: Major League Baseball Replaces U.S. Players with Foreigners Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 7 2003
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Words without Meaning: The Constitution, Confessions, and Mentally Retarded Suspects 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 495 2002
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The Causes and Effects of Liability Reform: Some Empirical Evidence NBER Working Paper No. W4989 2002
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Sharper Focus: Market Shares in the Merger Guidelines Antitrust Bulletin, Winter 2001
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An Empirical Study of the Economics of Pretrial Discovery International Review of Law and Economics, June 1999
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Time and Money: Discovery Leads to Hourly Billing 1999 U. Ill. L. Rev. 91 1999
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Scholarly Restraints - ABA Accreditation and Legal Education 19 Cardozo L. Rev. 2091 1998
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Fierce Compromise: The Administrative Procedure Act Emerges from New Deal Politics 90 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1557 1996
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