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About Grace M. Giesel

Professor Giesel, the Bernard Flexner Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor, teaches Contract Law, Professional Responsibility, Secured Transactions, and Contract Drafting. In all of her classes Professor Giesel strives to provide an environment for her students to learn doctrine and skills in a rigorous but comfortable setting. Professor Giesel's scholarly interests include contract and professional responsibility issues with particular focus on the nature of the relationship of attorney and client, in-house and corporate representation in general, the attorney-client privilege, contracts and public policy, and areas in which professional responsibility and contract law intersect.

Professor Giesel has authored numerous articles on issues of professional responsibility and also on contract law matters. Most recently, Professor Giesel has joined Professor Nathan Crystal on the seventh edition of the textbook, Professional Responsibility Problems of Practice and the Profession (2019). Recent articles include A New Look at Contract Mistake Doctrine and Personal Releases, 19 Nevada L.J. 535 (2018); Control of the Attorney-Client Privilege After Mergers and Other Transformational Transactions: Should Control of the Privilege Be Alienable by Contract?, 48 Seton Hall L. Rev. 309 (2018); Alternative Litigation Finance and the Attorney-Client Privilege, 92 Denver U. L. Rev. 95 (2014); and Alternative Litigation Finance and the Work-Product Doctrine, 47 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1083 (2012).

Professor Giesel is the past Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Committee. She is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education programs on professional responsibility issues. Professor Giesel joined the Brandeis faculty after clerking for the Honorable Boyce F. Martin, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and practicing law for several years. A graduate of Yale University, Professor Giesel received her J.D. degree, with distinction, from Emory University School of Law.

Positions

1988 - Present Bernard Flexner Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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Curriculum Vitae


Disciplines

Law

Research Interests


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Professional Service and Affiliations

2015 - 2016 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Louisville School of Law
2011 Member, Merit Selection Panel for Bankruptcy Judge — Western District of Kentucky
2007 - 2010 Member, Kentucky Supreme Court Mass Tort and Class Action Committee
Chair, Admissions Committee
Member, American Bar Association
Chair, Curriculum Committee
Chair, Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Committee
Member, Law School Dean Search Committee
Member, Louisville Bar Association
Chair, Personnel Committee
Member, Reinstatement and Probation Committee
Member, Student Welfare Committee
Member, University Selection Committee for Distinguished Service
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Honors and Awards

  • 2014 Women Lawyers Association Achievement in Excellence Award

Courses

  • Professional Responsibility
  • Contracts I and II
  • Contract Drafting

Education

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J.D., Emory University ‐ School of Law
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B.A., Yale University
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Contact Information

Room 283
Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292

P: +1-502-852-6382
F: +1-502-852-0862

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Articles (17)

Books (3)