William Moon

Associate Professor of Law

Phone: (410) 706-3830 Email: wmoon@law.umaryland.edu Office: 380

Courses: Business Associations; Conflict of Laws; Contracts; International Business Transactions; Maryland Law Review

Biography Publications

Biography

Will Moon’s teaching and research interests include contracts, corporate law, and private international law. His current research focuses on corporate charter competition, documenting the rise of offshore jurisdictions competing in the emerging international market for corporate law. Recent publications include Delaware’s Global Competitiveness in the Iowa Law Review and Delaware’s New Competition in the Northwestern University Law Review. His other scholarship has been published in student edited law reviews—including the Michigan Law Review and the Vanderbilt Law Review—and in peer-reviewed journals, including the European Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of International Economic Law. In 2021, Will was voted Professor of the Year by the Black Law Students Association.

Prior to joining University of Maryland School of Law in 2018, Will served as an Acting Assistant Professor in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law from 2016 to 2018. Prior to entering academia, Will worked as a litigation associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP in New York City, where he specialized in cross-border commercial disputes. From 2013-14, Moon served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Will holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Coker Fellow. He received a B.B.A. from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Business.

Publications

Book Chapters

Recognition, Rewards, and Regime Change, in Resolving Conflicts in the Law: Essays in Honour of Lea Brilmayer 130 (Chiara Giorgetti & Natalie Klein eds., 2019).

Articles

Anonymous Companies, 71 Duke Law Journal 1425 (2022). [Full Text]

Delaware's Global Competitiveness, 106 Iowa Law Review 1683 (2021). [Full Text]

Delaware's New Competition, 114 Northwestern University Law Review 1403 (2020). [Full Text]

Regulating Offshore Finance, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2019). [Full Text]

Tax Havens as Producers of Corporate Law, 116 Michigan Law Review 1081 (2018). [Full Text]

Contracting Out of Public Law, 55 Harvard Journal on Legislation 323 (2018). [Abstract]

The Original Meaning of the Law of Nations, 56 Virginia Journal of International Law 51 (2016). [Full Text]

Contracting Foreign Exchange Rate Risks: A Behavioral Law and Economics Perspective on KIKO Forward Contracts, 34 European Journal of Law and Economics 391 (2012) (with Haksoo Ko).

Essential Security Interests in International Investment Agreements, 15 Journal of International Economic Law 481 (2012).

Alternative Approach to Causation Analysis in Trade Remedy Investigations: Cost of Production Test, 44 Journal of World Trade 1023 (2010) (with Dukgeun Ahn). [Full Text]

William Moon

Associate Professor of Law

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