Current appointments:
- Professor of Law & Dean's Fellow, ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy & Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation
- Fellow, Transportation and Land Use Program, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management
Gregory H. Shill is Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. His scholarship on corporate law, local government, and transportation policy has been cited by federal and state courts, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, and has informed debates over corporate governance, urban policy, and infrastructure reform.
Professor Shill’s work is forthcoming or has appeared in leading law reviews, including the NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Law Review Forum, Business Lawyer, Journal of Law & Mobility, and Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, as well as peer-reviewed journals in allied disciplines. He is a co-author of the seventh edition of Local Government Law (forthcoming 2027) (with Baker, Gillette, Schleicher & Shoked) and the sixth edition of Principles of Contract Law (forthcoming 2027) (with Burton & Drahozal), and the creator of grant-supported open-access teaching materials on transportation law and policy.
His research and commentary have been featured in national media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Slate, Reuters, and CNBC, and were the subject of an NBC video feature on his transportation scholarship. He has also written for The Atlantic and co-hosts the podcast Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law (Apple; Spotify). He serves as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Prior to joining ASU, Professor Shill taught at the University of Iowa College of Law and served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and held fellowship appointments at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, NYU School of Law, and the American Bar Foundation. Earlier in his career, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced law in New York and London, handling litigation and investigations at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and corporate transactions at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
- J.D., Harvard Law School
- M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary
- B.A., Columbia University (history; political science)
- Business Associations; Contracts; Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation
- Transportation & Infrastructure; Local Government Law & Finance; Law & Economics; Legal Profession
Casebooks
Principles of Contract Law (West Academic) (with Steven J. Burton & Christopher R. Drahozal) (forthcoming 6th ed. 2027)
Local Government Law (West Academic) (with Lynn A. Baker, Clayton P. Gillette, David Schleicher & Nadav Shoked) (forthcoming 7th ed. 2027)
Articles, Essays & Book Chapters
- Transportation for the Abundant Society, 112 Iowa Law Review __ (forthcoming 2026) (with Jonathan Levine)
- Schrödinger’s Crosswalk, 51 Transportation Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2026) (with Cara Hamann et al.)
- Examination of Driver License Renewal Policies and Older Driver Crash and Injury Rates by Rurality (with Cara Hamann et al.), 96 Journal of Safety Research 357 (2026) (peer reviewed)
- Transportation Policy for the 100-Year Life (book chapter in Law and the 100-Year Life: Transforming Our Institutions for a Longer Lifespan (Anne Alstott, Abbe Gluck & Eugene Rusyn eds., 2025))
- Beyond Congestion Pricing, 2025 Michigan Journal of Law & Mobility 1 (peer reviewed)
- Impact of Driver Licensing Renewal Policies on Older Driver Crash Involvement and Injury Rates in 13 States, 2000-2019, 12 Injury Epidemiology 1 (2025) (peer reviewed) (with Cara Hamann et al.)
- The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock, 75 Alabama Law Review 221 (2023) (author post on Harvard corporate governance blog)
- First Principles in Transportation Law and Policy (book chapter in A Research Agenda for US Land Use and Planning Law (John Infranca & Sarah Schindler eds., 2023)) (with Jonathan Levine)
- Regulating the Pedestrian Safety Crisis, 97 N.Y.U. Law Review Online 194 (2022)
- The Geography of Human Capital Management, 77 Business Lawyer 679 (2022)
- Diversity, ESG, and Latent Board Power, 46 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 255 (2022) (with Matthew Strand)
- The Puzzle and Persistence of Biglaw Clustering, 23 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 191 (2022) (peer reviewed) (author post on Columbia Blue Sky corporate governance blog)
- Rewriting Our Nation’s Deadly Traffic Manual, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (2021) (with Sara Bronin)
- The Future of Law and Transportation, 106 Iowa Law Review 2107 (2021)
- Congressional Securities Trading, 96 Indiana Law Journal 313 (2020) (author post on Harvard corporate governance blog)
- The Independent Board as Shield, 77 Washington & Lee Law Review 1811 (2020)
- Should Law Subsidize Driving?, 95 N.Y.U. Law Review 498 (2020)
- The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty, 54 UCLA Law Review 1246 (2017) (author post on Harvard corporate governance blog)
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
| LAW 515 | Contracts |
| LAW 691 | Seminar |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| LAW 515 | Contracts |