Tracey E. George

Tracey E. George

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professional Education
Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty
Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

Federal courts and judges, state judicial systems, judicial selection, judicial elections, multidistrict litigation, legal education, the legal profession, contract law

Contact Me

Room 240
(615) 322-6310
tracey.george@vanderbilt.edu

Biography

Tracey George brings a social science perspective to a range of topics, including judges and courts, judicial selection and elections, legal education and the legal profession, and contract law and theory. She has published numerous studies in which she examines how institutional design influences actions and outcomes in state and federal judicial systems. She is also a recognized expert on the study of legal education. She and UCLA Law Professor Russell Korobkin have published an innovative casebook on contract law, a subject for which she has earned Vanderbilt's student-selected Hall-Hartman Award for Outstanding Teaching eight times.

Before joining the Vanderbilt Law faculty in 2004, George was a Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, where she was also faculty associate at the Institute for Policy Research. She was appointed to the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty in fall 2013. She currently serves as University Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professional Education, overseeing faculty hiring and retention, appointments and promotions, awards and honors, and development and support.

Education

J.D., Stanford Law School
M.A., (Political Science) Washington University in St. Louis
B.A. and B.S., Southern Methodist University