Gregory Shill

Gregory H. Shill is a Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He joined the ASU faculty in 2025. A nationally recognized scholar of corporate law and local government, Professor Shill’s research applies legal and economic analysis to better understand firms, cities, and transportation systems.

Professor Shill’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Business Lawyer, Harvard Law Review Forum, NYU Law Review Online, and in other leading law reviews, peer-reviewed field journals, and edited volumes. He is a co-author of the forthcoming sixth edition of Principles of Contract Law (with Steven J. Burton and Christopher R. Drahozal).

Professor Shill’s work has been cited by federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and featured in national media such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, American Lawyer, NPR, and NBC. He co-hosts Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law, a podcast on law and urban economics scholarship, and periodically contributes opinion writing to The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and other outlets.

Before joining ASU, Professor Shill served on the permanent faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law, as a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and as a fellow at Harvard Law School in the Program on Corporate Governance. He clerked for Judge Jennifer W. Elrod of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit out of law school and practiced litigation at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York and London before transitioning to a corporate practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where his work included shareholder activism campaigns, debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation.

Professor Shill holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a B.A. in history and political science from Columbia University. He is also a nonresident fellow in the Transportation and Land Use Program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and serves as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

His charitable work includes founding Yada Yada Law School, a Seinfeld-themed parody law school that raised funds for legal aid during the pandemic; serving on the board of a nonprofit organization; and organizing cycling teams for two 100-mile rides benefitting cancer research.