Larry T. Garvin

Professor of Law

Teaches:

Research Interests:

Contracts and commercial law, especially using neo-classical and behavioral economics

Previous Professional Experience:

Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Florida State University College of Law
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Texas Law School; Washington University School of Law, St. Louis
Associate, Shea and Gardner, Washington, D.C.
Law Clerk, Hon. Edward N. Cahn, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Awards/Achievements:

Commissioner on Uniform State Laws, 2005-present
Chair, Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law, Association of American Law Schools, 2005
Managing Editor, The Yale Law Journal
Article Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation

Selected Publications:

The Law of Entrepreneurial Finance (with D. Gordon Smith) (forthcoming Aspen 2007).
Farnsworth on Contracts (3d ed. Supp. forthcoming 2006) (with E. Allan Farnsworth).
Secured Transactions and Payment Systems: Problems and Answers (with John F. Dolan et al.) (2d ed. Aspen 2003).
"Credit, Information, and Trust in the Law of Sales: The Credit Seller’s Right of Reclamation," 44 UCLA Law Review 247-360 (1996).
"Adequate Assurance of Performance: Of Risk, Duress, and Cognition," 69 University of Colorado Law Review 69-173 (1998).
"Disproportionality and the Law of Consequential Damages: Default Theory and Cognitive Reality," 59 Ohio State Law Journal 339-428 (1998).
"Uncertainty and Error in the Law of Sales: The Article Two Statute of Limitations," 83 Boston University Law Review 345-399 (2003).
"Small Business and the False Dichotomies of Contract Law," 40 Wake Forest Law Review 295 (2005).