Steven Walt
Steven D. Walt (/wɔːlt/) is a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He teaches courses on contracts, sales/commercial paper, legal philosophy, bankruptcy and secured transactions.
Biography
Walt graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Kalamazoo College in 1976.[1] Walt also holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago (received in 1978 and 1984, respectively).[1]
He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1988 and was an associate professor at the University of San Diego for three years.[1] He joined the University of Virginia School of Law faculty after visiting for one year as a professor of law from the University of San Diego.[1] He is currently the Percy Brown, Jr., Professor of Law and John V. Ray Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.[1]
He has received several academic awards, including a Whiting National Fellowship in the Humanities.[1] In addition, he has been a visiting research scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Amoco Foundation Term Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He is a member of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.[1]
Publications
Books
- Gillette, Clayton P.; Walt, Steven D. (2008). Sales Law: Domestic and International, 2nd Edition (Concepts and Insights Series). Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1599412658.
- Kraus, Jody S., Walt, Steven D., ed. (2007). The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521038768.
- Warren, William D.; Walt, Steven D. (2010). Commercial Law, 8th Edition (University Casebook Series). Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1599417851.
- Warren, William D.; Walt, Steven D. (2010). Payments and Credits, 8th Edition (University Casebook Series). Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1599417462.
- Warren, William D.; Walt, Steven D. (2010). Secured Transactions in Personal Property, 8th Edition (University Casebook Series). Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1599417578.
- Warren, William D.; Walt, Steven D. (2012). Commercial Law: Selected Statutes, 2012-2013. Foundation Press. ISBN 978-1609301538.
Journal articles
- Gillette, Clayton P.; Walt, Steven (2008). "Uniformity and Diversity in Payment Systems". Chicago-Kent Law Review 83: 499. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Goldsmith, Jack; Walt, Steven (May 1998). "Erie and the Irrelevance of Legal Positivism". Virginia Law Review 84 (4): 673–713. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Hynes, Richard M.; Walt, Steven (Summer 2010). "Why Banks Are Not Allowed in Bankruptcy". Washington & Lee Law Review 67: 985. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Kraus, Jody S.; Walt, Steven (June 1999). "In Defense of the Incorporation Strategy". University of Virginia Law School, Legal Studies Working Paper. No. 99-4. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1990). "Expectations, Loss Distribution and Commercial Impracticability". Indiana Law Review 24: 65. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (November 1991). "Book Review: Some Problems of Pragmatic Jurisprudence". Texas Law Review 70: 317. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1991). "For Specific Performance under the United Nations Sales Convention". Texas International Law Journal 26: 211. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1995). "The Case for Laundered Security Interests". Tennessee Law Review 63: 369. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1998). "Decision by Division: The Contractarian Structure of Commercial Arbitration". Rutgers Law Review 51: 369. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1998). "Generosity in Bankruptcy: The New Place of Charitable Contributions in Fraudulent Conveyance Law". Loyala of Los Angeles Law Review 32: 1029. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (1998). "Novelty and the Risks of Uniform Sales Law". Virginia Journal of International Law 39: 671. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (2000). "Collective Inaction and Investment: The Political Economy of Delay in Bankruptcy Reform". Emory Law Journal 49: 1211. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (2000). "Introduction: Privatization and Its Prospects". Virginia Journal of International Law 41: 517. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven (November 2006). "Eliminating Corrective Justice". Virginia Law Review 92 (7): 1311–1323. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven; Laufer, William S. (1990). "Why Personhood Doesn't Matter: Corporate Criminal Liability and Sanctions". American Journal of Criminal Law 18: 263. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- Walt, Steven; Sherwin, Emily L. (1993). "Contribution Arguments in Commercial Law". Emory Law Journal 42 (4): 897. Retrieved 5 September 2012.