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Professor Georgakopoulos produces scholarship in the intersection of business and uncertainty. He is the author of The Logic of Securities Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press); Principles and Methods of Law and Economics (Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005), a coauthor of the multi-volume Blumberg on Corporate Groups, and numerous articles that have received broad citation, including by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut before moving to Indianapolis. Hailing from a Greek legal family, he began his legal education in his home country, graduating first in his law school class, and completed it by studying law and finance at Harvard where he subsequently held a postdoctoral appointment. His doctoral dissertation focused on insider trading, disclosure obligations, and securities fraud. One of the resulting articles was cited by the S.E.C. to the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is active in the American Law Institute, the American Law & Economics Association, and the European Association of Law & Economics. He is also a founding member of the Midwestern Law & Economics Association and has served as an adviser to the Capital Markets Commission of Greece.