CURRICULUM VITAE GERRIT DE GEEST (December 23, 2020) PERSONAL Born in Aalst (Belgium). Married (with Christine Vandenabeele), two daughters. Citizenship: American and Belgian. Office: Washington University School of Law, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1120, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. Tel [office]: +1-314-935-7839. Email: [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITION 2014 – present Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, Washington University School of Law PREVIOUS ACADEMIC (AND VISITING) POSITIONS 2015 – 2017 Vice Dean of Scholarship and Analytics, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (USA). 2010 – 2015 Director of the Center on Law, Innovation & Economic Growth, Washington University School of Law 2007 – 2013 Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law 2014 (Winter) Visiting Scholar, Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics, University of Chicago 2000 – 2007 Professor of Law and Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht School of Economics 1997 – 2000 Professor of Law and Economics, Ghent University, School of Law 1995, 1999–2000 Professor of Law and Economics, Antwerp University (U.I.A.) (15%) 1996 – 2000 Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, School of Law (part-time) 1986 – 1996 Assistant, Ghent University, School of Law (Postdoctoral Assistant, 1994-96) 2002 & 2004 (Fall) Visiting Professor, George Mason University School of Law 2002 (Nov) Visiting Professor, University of Virginia School of Law 1998 – 1999 Visiting Professor, Catholic University Brussels (LL M program legal theory) 1997 (Nov-Dec) Visiting Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Faculty of Law EDUCATION PhD Ghent University (Law), 1993, summa cum laude Educational Master Ghent University, 1986, magna cum laude License Law (JD) Ghent University, 1983 LANGUAGES Dutch (native), English, French, Latin. PAGE 1 OF 12 EDITORIAL POSITIONS 2004 – Present Consulting Board, European Review of Contract Law 2015 – Present Editorial Board, The Latin American and Iberian Journal of Law and Economics. 2006 – Present Book Series Editor, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Second edition, Edward Elgar. 1998 – Present Book Series Co-Editor, New Horizons in Law and Economics, Edward Elgar. 2004 – 2009 Editor, Review of Law and Economics 2004 – 2007 Associate Editor, International Review of Law and Economics 2001 – 2008 Editorial Board (‘medewerker rechtseconomie’), Nederlands Juristenblad ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS & SERVICE 2001 – 2004 President, European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) 2006 Chairperson, External Evaluation Commission (‘Visitatiecommissie’), Bachelor and Master Programs in Law and Management, QANU, The Netherlands. 2004 – 2008 Member of the European Group on an Integrated Contract Law (EUGICOL) 2003 – 2007 Chair, Board of Examiners, Utrecht School of Economics (Utrecht University) 2005 – Present Member Advisory Board, European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) 1999 – 2006 Chairperson, Professional Ethics Commission, Flemish Speech Therapists Association (VVL) (Co-)organizer of the following conferences: Third Annual Workshop on International and Comparative Law (Washington University, 1-2 March 2013); Annual Conference of the Midwest Law and Economics Association (Washington University, 12-13 October 2012); Second Annual Workshop on International and Comparative Law (Washington University, 30-31 March 2012); Workshop on Theoretical Law and Economics (Washington University, 4-5 November 2011); First Annual Workshop on International and Comparative Law (Washington University, April 2011); Kauffman Foundation Conference on Intellectual Property and Innovation (Washington University, 2009); DWTC Conference on Economic Analysis of Traffic Safety (Ghent, 26 February 2003); Utrecht Workshop in Law and Economics (21 February 2002), Annual Conference European Association of Law and Economics (Ghent, 14-16 September 2000); Workshop on Law and Economics Teaching (Ghent, 18 February 2000); Middle Meeting Erasmus Program in Law and Economics (Ghent, 19 February 2000); Seventh Flemish Workshop on Law and Economics (Ghent, 13 February 1998); Middle Meeting Erasmus Program in Law and Economics (Ghent, 14 February 1998); Workshop Law & Economics and the Labour Market (Utrecht, 30 May 1997); Sixth Workshop on Law & Economics (Ghent, 8 March 1996); Conference on Sociology of Law v Law & Economics: A Different Paradigm? (Ghent, 23 March 1995; Fifth Workshop on Law & Economics (Ghent, March 4, 1994); Third Workshop on Law & Economics (Ghent, 5 December 1987). TEACHING RECORD Courses taught include Contracts (1L, WUSTL Law School); Consumer Contracts Seminar (WUSTL Law School) Contract Drafting Seminar (WUSTL Law School, Utrecht University, George Mason University); Comparative Law (WUSTL Law School, Ghent University, Imadec University); Law and Economics (WUSTL Law School, Utrecht University, Ghent University, Stockholm University, Catholic University of Brussels, University of Antwerp); Comparative Contract Law (University of PAGE 2 OF 12 Virginia, George Mason University School of Law); Economic Analysis of Contract Law (Ghent University); Economic Analysis of European Private Law (Ghent University); Jurisprudence (WUSTL Law School, Ghent University); History of Economic Thought (Imadec University); Philosophy of Legal Science (Ghent University); Civil Law (Utrecht University); Introduction to Law (Ghent University). PROMOTERSHIP PhD THESES I served as promoter or co-promoter of the following doctoral dissertations: Mohammed Alkaabi, Punitive Damages: A Comparative Study of U.S. and Qatari Law, May 2019; Isaac Amon, On the Inquisitorial Spectrum: The Story of Comparative Criminal Procedure, May 2019; Daniel Cyrus, Equity Law as a Model for Reformist Muslim Jurists to Emulate Al-Istihsan as an Alternative to Ancient Authoritative Islamic Sources, May 2019; Mesfer Alsaluli, Reformation of Saudi Arabian Contract Law, Washington University School of Law, 18 April 2018; Chen Zhao, The Transformation of Public Use in the United States and China, Washington University School of Law, 6 June 2013; Mitja Kovac, Comparative Contract Law and Economics, Utrecht University, School of Economics, 24 June 2008; Jef De Mot, Economic Analysis of Civil Procedure. Basic Models and Extensions, Ghent University, Faculty of Law, 10 October 2007; Yariv Ilan, Competition Law for New Technology Industries, Utrecht University, School of Economics, 8 October 2007 (with R. Van den Bergh); Ben W.F. Depoorter, Fragmentation of Property: The Law and Economics of the Anticommons, PhD dissertation, Ghent University, Faculty of Law, 16 June 2003 (with B. Bouckaert); Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Fundamental Characteristics of Incentive Streams Created by Legal Systems, PhD Dissertation, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, 14 June 2002, cum laude (with J.J. Siegers); Wouter P.J. Wils, The Optimal Enforcement of EC Antitrust Law. Essays in Law and Economics. PhD Dissertation, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, 24 April 2002, cum laude (with K.J.M. Mortelmans); EXTERNALLY FINANCED RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY PROJECTS Economic Impact Group, Economic assessment of the Common Principles of European Contract Law in the framework of the CoPECL project, (coordinator for Utrecht, project with Pierre Larouche, Tilburg University, as part of a larger project by the Study Group of prof. von Bar, Osnabruck University), 2006-2008. Promoter of 2 closely related projects, “Dataverzameling en –verwerking voor regelgevingsevaluatie” (data collection and processing for legislative and regulatory management), and “De mogelijkheden van ICT-tools van documentbeheer voor de monitoring en ex post evaluatie van regelgeving” (ICT-tools for document management and the monitoring and ex post evaluation of legislation and regulation), Ghent University for IBBT (a Flemish public institution), 2004-2006. Promoter, project “Internationale vergelijking kenmerken van de juridische infrastructuur en maatschappelijke effecten” (International comparison characteristics legal infrastructuur and social effects), November 2003- October 2004, WODC (Ministry of Justice, The Hague), project No. 1058. Promoter, for the DWTC (Belgian federal state) project verkeersveiligheid (Economic analysis of traffic safety), Ghent University, 1 June 2002 – 15 July 2003 (with S. Proost, University Leuven). Consultant, Deloitte & Touche Management Solutions, two projects for the Flemish Government: “Studie Juridisch-Technische Vereenvoudiging” (Blueprint for a large-scale codification project in Flanders), February-June 2003; and “Kenniscel Reguleringsmanagement” (Starting up the Unit for PAGE 3 OF 12 Regulatory Management), February-June 2001. Drafter, Professional Code Flemish Speech Therapists (VVL), 2000. PRIZES AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITIONS The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics has been “A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2001” (Choice is a leading librarian journal, owned by the American Library Association). PUBLICATIONS Books DE GEEST, Gerrit (2020), American Law: A Comparative Primer, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 83910 144 1 (cased), ISBN 978 1 83910 146 5 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 83910 145 8 (eBook) DE GEEST, Gerrit (2018), Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality, Beccaria Books, 341 p., ISBN 978-1- 7325112-0-0. DE GEEST, Gerrit (ed.) (2011), Contract Law and Economics, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (in the series Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, vol. 6), 482 p., ISBN 978 1 84720 600 8. DE GEEST, Gerrit (ed.) (2009), Economics of Comparative Law, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (in the series Economic Approaches to