Michael I. Krauss is a professor of law at George Mason University, where he teaches torts, product liability, legal ethics, and legal philosophy. In addition to his teaching and research functions, he is president of the Virginia Association of Scholars and a member of the Board of Governors of the Education Section of the Virginia State Bar. He obtained his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University in Ottawa and his law degree from Quebec’s Universite de Sherbrook. He obtained his LL.M. from Yale Law School and completed his doctoral residency as the law and economics fellow at Columbia Law School. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.