Gregory H. Shill is Professor of Law and Dean’s Fellow at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and a Fellow in the Transportation and Land Use Program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. 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 has appeared or is forthcoming in leading law reviews, including the NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Law Review Forum, Business Lawyer, and Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, as well as peer-reviewed journals in allied disciplines. He is co-author of Local Government Law (forthcoming 7th ed.) (with Baker, Gillette, Schleicher & Shoked) and Principles of Contract Law (forthcoming 6th ed.) (with Burton & Drahozal), and creator of grant-supported open-access teaching materials on transportation law and policy. His research and commentary have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and NBC, which produced a 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. He acts as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Prior to joining ASU, Professor Shill was a member of the permanent law faculty of the University of Iowa. He has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis as a Visiting Professor of Law and served as a fellow at Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, and the American Bar Foundation. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced law in New York and London. During 2026-27, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.
- J.D., Harvard Law School
- M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary
- B.A., Columbia University (history; political science)
- Business Associations; Contracts; Corporate Governance; Securities Regulation; Corporate Finance
- Transportation & Infrastructure; Local Government Law; Land Use
Casebook
Principles of Contract Law (West Academic) (with Steven J. Burton & Christopher R. Drahozal) (forthcoming 6th ed.)
Articles, Essays & Book Chapters
- 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)
- HLS corporate governance blog post
- 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)
- Columbia Blue Sky corporate governance blog post
- 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)
- HLS corporate governance blog post
- The Independent Board as Shield, 77 Washington & Lee Law Review 1811 (2020)
- Should Law Subsidize Driving?, 95 N.Y.U. Law Review 498 (2020) (Jotwell review)
- The Golden Leash and the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty, 54 UCLA Law Review 1246 (2017)
- HLS corporate governance blog post