Christopher Guzelian
Christopher Guzelian
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Stanford Law School;
M.A., Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder;
B.A., Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, with distinction
Phone: (619) 961-4248

Professor Guzelian has worked as a deputy district attorney and as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court law clerk in Colorado and as a civilian employee of the Department of Defense. He also has prior experience teaching at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. His research interests are various, including the First Amendment freedom of speech, legal risk management, evidence-based medicine/policy, bankruptcy, banking and monetary policy, and national security law.

 

Courses include:

Constitutional Law I & II and Criminal Law, Legal Risk Management, Law & Economics, Administrative Appeals

Scholarships

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS

Relevance, 10 Charleston L. Rev. (forthcoming 2016)

Wisselbank and Amsterdam Price Volatility: a Fractal Test of the Austrian Fractional-Reserve Banking Hypothesis, Procesos De Mercado (with Robert F. Mulligan) (forthcoming 2016)

Required Resolution: Enforcing Contracts Without Courts, 20 NEXUS 1 (2015), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2533636

Credit Scores, Lending, and Psychosocial Disability, 95 B.U. L. Rev. 1807 (with Michael A. Stein and Hagop S. Akiskal) (2015)

Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions, 55 Am. J. Legal Hist. 284 (with Michael A. Stein and Kristina M. Guzelian) (2015), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533727

False Speech: Quagmire, 51 San Diego L. Rev. 19 (2014), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2245157

Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): The (Only) Means for Distinguishing Knowledge of Medical Causation from Expert Opinion in the Courtroom, 47 Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L.J. 741 (with Terence M. Davidson) (2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2168363

No Country for Soviet Men: Case Report of a Deported Stateless Aggravated Felon’s Stay in Purgatory, 12 Cal. Crim. L.J. (2012), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533750

True and False Speech, 51 B.C. L. Rev. 669 (2010), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=924722

Scientific Speech, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 881 (2008), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=694821

Did Daubert Rid Courtrooms of Advocacy Science?, in Scientific Evidence Review (Cwik & Witt eds., 7th ed., Am. Bar Assoc. 2006)

Evidence-Based Toxicology: A Comprehensive Framework for Causation, 24 Human & Experimental Toxicology 161 (with Robert James et al., 2005)

The Kindynamic Theory of Tort, 80 Ind. L.J. 987 (2005), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=619683

Authority-Based Explanation, 303 Science 1468 (2004) (letter)

Liability & Fear, 65 Ohio State L. J. 713 (2004), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=526182

A Quantitative Methodology for Determining the Need for Exposure-Prompted Medical Monitoring, 79 Ind. L.J. 57 (2004) (with Bruce E. Hillner and Philip S. Guzelian), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=439220

A Spectrum Revolution: Deploying Ultrawideband Technology On Native American Lands, 11 CommLaw Conspectus 277 (with John C. Miller, 2003), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=458560

News

  • December 9, 2014
    Haik Chilingaryan 3L, along with Associate Dean William Byrnes and Adjunct Professor Robert Bloink, published in the October edition of Mertens Law...
  • Najda Aslanyan Accepts Post Bar Position at the Ventura County of Public Defende
    May 20, 2014
    May 2014 grad Najda Aslanyan has secured a position at the Ventura County Public Defenders Office as a post bar law clerk. The Post Bar clerkship...
  • March 24, 2014
    Sign up to show off your skills or simply come enjoy performances by TJSL professors, alumni and students at the inaugural Thomas Jefferson School of...
  • Valedictorian Walter Araujo
    May 16, 2013
    May 2013 Valedictorian Walter Araujo looks back with pride at his time spent at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. And that’s not surprising when...
  • Bankruptcy Conference
    October 25, 2012
    On Wednesday, October 24 a panel of ten judges and lawyers from the 86th National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges presented “Developing a...

Expertise

Bankruptcy

Constitutional Law

  • First Amendment/Freedom of Expression

Criminal Law

Empirical Research

Law and Economics