Geoffrey C. Rapp Associate Professor Office:  LC2002D Campus Phone:  (419) 530-2856 Fax Number:  (419) 530-7911   E-Mail:  geoffrey.rapp@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Lois Patek (419) 530-2965

Fall 2008

Torts

Syllabus

First Assignment

You will be able to sign up for Westlaw after you receive your password on Tuesday, August 26 in your first Legal Research Writing class.

 

Business Associations

Syllabus

First Assignment

Sports Law Blog

Courses Taught:

Torts
Business Associations
Trusts & Estates
Antitrust
Sports Law

Associate Professor Geoffrey C. Rapp joined the College of Law faculty in 2004. Professor Rapp is a graduate of Harvard College (AB) (1998) and Yale Law School (JD) (2001).

Rapp graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Economics from Harvard, where he was a Research Assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and earned a public school teaching certificate in Social Studies. At Yale Law School, he was a Teaching Fellow and Head Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics and a Teaching Fellow in the Computer Science Department. He served as a Notes Editor on the Yale Law Journal.

Rapp then clerked for The Honorable Cornelia G. Kennedy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Detroit, Michigan. Rapp was a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and has also taught at Wayne State University School of Law and Michigan State University College of Law, and worked in private practice.

Rapp’s research interests include substantive tort law, regulation of business entities and financial markets, the economic aspects of sports law, and the statistical analysis of legal and policy problems. Rapp is a contributor to the Sports Law Blog and has published pieces in The Washington Post, The Hartford Courant, and CNN.com. He has been frequently interviewed by local and national media, including National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toledo Blade and The Washington Times.

Recent Scholarship:

The Wreckage of Recklessness, 86 Washington University Law Review (forthcoming 2008)

Beyond Protection: Invigorating Incentives for Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate and Securities Fraud Whistleblowers, 87 Boston University Law Review 91 (2007)

Gouging: Terrorist Attacks, Hurricanes, and the Legal and Economic Aspects of Post-Disaster Price Regulation, 94 Kentucky Law Journal 535 (2006)

Preserving LLC Veil Piercing, 31 Journal of Corporation Law 1063 (2006)