About George
George Triantis has spent decades at the intersection of law and business. He has held named professorships at two of the country’s leading law schools and is widely known in academic circles for his work on legal institutions and economic analysis of law.
Triantis joined Harvard Law School as the Eli Goldston Professor of Law in 2006. He taught there for several years, shaping courses that combined doctrinal analysis with economic reasoning. In 2011 he moved to Stanford Law School as the Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business. At Stanford he continued to teach and write on subjects that connect commercial practice to legal structures.
His professional affiliations reflect a blend of scholarly and institutional engagement. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a director of the American Law & Economics Association and remains involved in that community. Those roles have put him in regular conversation with judges, economists, and other scholars concerned with how law shapes markets and institutions.
Triantis’s scholarship centers on issues at the crossroads of corporate law, bankruptcy, and law and economics. He has written about the incentives embedded in bankruptcy rules, the design of corporate governance, and the incentives that shape firm behavior. His work often examines how legal rules affect economic outcomes and how economic thinking can inform clearer, more predictable rules. He publishes in journals read by lawyers and economists and presents papers at conferences that bring those audiences together.
In the classroom he teaches courses that reflect those interests: business associations, bankruptcy, and law and economics among them. His approach blends close attention to legal doctrine with models drawn from economic analysis. Students who take his courses encounter case law and policy debates alongside formal tools that clarify trade-offs.
Outside teaching and writing, Triantis participates in workshops and panels that address policy issues in corporate governance and restructuring. He engages with scholars across disciplines and contributes to debates over how legal rules can be structured to serve practical ends. As of 2026 he teaches and pursues scholarship at Stanford Law School, focusing on corporate law, bankruptcy, and law and economics.