GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR
Alumnae Law Center Professor of
Law University of Houston Law
Center Houston, Texas 77204-6060
713-743-0896
email: gmoohr@uh.edu
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=33015
EMPLOYMENT
University of Houston Law Center, 1995 - 2014
Professor of Law Emerita
Honors
George Butler Research Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, 2001-03
College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, March 2010
Visiting Professor
University of Alabama School of Law, Autumn 2006
John J. Sparkman Visiting Professor of Law
Washington & Lee University School of Law, Autumn 2003
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
University of Toledo College of Law, 1994-95
Visiting Assistant Professor
Associate, Covington & Burling, 1992-1994
Washington, D.C.
Judicial Clerk, The Honorable James M. Sprouse, 1991-1992
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Summer Associate, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, 1990
Washington, D.C.
Research Assistant, American University, Washington College of Law, 1989
Professor Ira Robbins, Professor John B. Corr
EDUCATION
J.D., The American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.
Summa Cum Laude, 1991, First in Class
Editor-in-Chief, The American University Law Review
Honors
The Outstanding Graduate of 1991, Washington College of Law
Turley Prize: Outstanding Publication in The American University Law Review
Washington College of Law Honor Society
The American University Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 1991
M.S., Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1987
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Graduate study in history, 1969-1972
B.S., University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, 1964
BOOKS
THE CRIMINAL LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION: CASES AND
MATERIALS, with Irina D. Manta & Jacqueline Lipton (2d edition, West 2016), and
accompanying Teacher’s Manual (2016)
CRIMINAL LAW, with Cara Drinan, Linda Malone, & Paul Marcus (8th edition, Lexis
2016) and accompanying Teacher’s Manual (2016, forthcoming).
ARTICLES
How White Collar Movies Matter, 16 Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law 119
(2015)
White Collar Crime Goes to the Movies, 11 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 785
(2014)
Playing with the Rules: An Effort to Strengthen the Mens Rea Standards of Federal Criminal
Laws, 7 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 685 (2011)
The Balance Among Corporate Criminal Liability, Private Civil Suits, and Regulatory
Enforcement, 46 American Criminal Law Review 1459 (2009)
Medical Malpractice Tort Reform in Texas: Treating Symptoms Rather Than Seeking a Cure,
with Roger Sherman, 12 Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law 142 (2009)
Tax Evasion as White Collar Fraud, 9 Houston Journal of Business and Tax Law 207 (2009).
Book Review, RELIGION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE by Monica K. Miller, with Roger Sherman, 24
Journal of Law and Religion 749 (2009).
Securities Law and Its Enforcement: The Case of Martha Stewart in INSIDER TRADING:
REGULATION AND ANALYSIS (Paul Ali & Gergory N. Gregorious, eds., 2008)
Another Limitation on Honest Services Fraud? 32 Champion 18 (2008)
Of Bad Apples and Bad Trees: Considering Fault-Based Liability for Complicit Corporations,
44 American Criminal Law Review 1343 (2007) (symposium issue) reprinted in ENRON AND
OTHER CORPORATE FIASCOS: THE CORPORATE SCANDAL READER (Nancy B. Rapoport et al.
eds. 2009)
On the Prospects of Deterring Corporate Crime, 2 Journal of Business & Technology Law 25
(2007) (symposium issue)
What the Martha Stewart Case Tells Us About Federal Criminal Law, 43 Houston Law Review
591 (2006)
Navigating the Currents of Federal Criminal Law: The Martha Stewart Case, in MARTHA
STEWART’S LEGAL PROBLEMS (J. Heminway, ed. 2006)
Defining Overcriminalization Through Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Example of Criminal
Copyright Laws, 54 American University Law Review 783 (2005) (symposium issue)
Prosecutorial Power in an Adversarial System: Lessons from Current White Collar Cases and
the Inquisitorial Model, 8 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 165 (2004) (symposium issue)
The Crime of Copyright Infringement: An Inquiry Based on Morality, Harm, and Criminal
Theory, 83 Boston University Law Review 731 (2003)
An Enron Lesson: The Limited Role of Criminal Law in Preventing Business Misconduct, 55
Florida Law Review 937 (2003); reprinted in ENRON: CORPORATE FIASCOS AND LEGAL
IMPLICATIONS (B. Dharan & N. Rapoport, eds. 2004)
The Problematic Role of Criminal Law in Regulating Use of Information: The Case of the
Economic Espionage Act, 80 University of North Carolina Law Review 853 (2002)
Federal Criminal Fraud and the Development of Property Rights in Information, 2000
University of Illinois Law Review 683 (2000)
Opting In or Opting Out: The New Legal Process or Arbitration, 77 Washington University
Law Quarterly 1087 (2000) (review essay)
Arbitration and the Goals of Employment Discrimination Law, 56 Washington & Lee Law
Review 395 (1999)
Mail Fraud Meets Criminal Theory, 67 Cincinnati Law Review 1 (1998)
The Federal Interest in Criminal Law, 47 Syracuse Law Review 1127 (1997)
One Kind of Legacy: Judge Sprouse’s Law Clerks, 98 West Virginia Law Review 17 (1995)
Mail Fraud and the Intangible Rights Doctrine: Someone To Watch Over Us, 31 Harvard
Journal on Legislation 153 (1994)
Note, Murray v. Giarratano: A Remedy Reduced to a Meaningless Ritual, 39 American
University Law Review 765 (1990)
OTHER
WRITINGS
Court Should Strike Down Honest Services Fraud Law, Houston Chronicle, May 12, 2010
Martha Stewart: Criminal? Business and Finance Magazine, Feb. 23, 2007
Everyone Loses in Arbitration, Legal Times, November 8, 1999
Don’t Make a Federal Case Out of Everything, Legal Times, March 2, 1998
Reprinted in Texas Lawyer, New Jersey Bar Journal, & others
PRESENTATIONS
White Collar Films in the Classroom, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS)
Annual Conference (August 9, 2013)
The Common Law of Insider Trading, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS)
Annual Conference (August 7, 2013)
Two or Three Things I Know About White Collar Crime, Christ the King Lutheran Church,
Houston, TX (April 21, 2013)
Technology and Criminal Law: The Case of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, American
Bar Association, Substantive Law and Technology Conference, Washington, D.C. (November
2010)
Using Default Rules to Restore the Significance of Mens Rea in Federal Commercial
Law, George Mason University School of Law Conference, Overcriminalization 2.0:
Developing Consensus Solutions, Washington, D.C. (October 2010)
Moderator, White Collar Crime: Issues in Tax Fraud, University of Houston Law Center
Symposium (October 2008)
Beyond Enforcement: Problematic Issues Raised by Intellectual Property and Information
Crimes, ABA White Collar Crime Institute (March 2008)
Employment Law: Selected Statutes, People’s Law School, University of Houston Law Center
(April 2007)
Of Bad Apples and Bad Trees: Considering Fault-Based Liability for Complicit Corporations,
Conference, Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications, Georgetown
University Law Center (March 2007)
Deterring Crime by Individuals within Corporations, Faculty Colloquium, University of Alabama
School of Law (October 2006)
Criminal Indictments of Corporations, Criminalization of Corporate Law, University of
Maryland Roundtable (April 2006)
Criminal Enforcement of Current White Collar Cases, American Petroleum Institute
Accounting Committee (April 2006)
What the Martha Stewart Case Tells Us About Federal Criminal Law, Inaugural Chair Lecture
(February 2006)
The Deterrent Effect of Criminalizing Information Misappropriation and Copyright Infringement,
Houston Bar Association Cyberlaw Conference (April 2005)
The Use and Abuse of Criminal Law in Controlling Copyright Infringement, Symposium, Real
Law and On Line Rights, University of Virginia, Journal of Law & Technology (February
2005)
The Emerging Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information: Overcriminalization or
Not? Symposium, Overcriminalization: The Politics of Crime, American University
Washington College of Law (October 2004)
Prosecutorial Power in an Adversarial System, International Workshop, White Collar
Criminal Law in Comparative Perspective, University of Buffalo Law School (April 2004)
Mail and Wire Fraud–Still Vague After All These Years, Southeastern Association of Law
Schools Annual Conference (August 2004)
Moderator and Panelist, Criminalization of Corporate Conduct – Do Guccis Go with an
Orange Jumpsuit?, The Texas General Counsel Forum, Houston Chapter (April 2003)
The Harm and Morality of Copyright Infringement, Washington & Lee University School of
Law (October 2002)
Publishing a Law Review Article, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual
Conference (July 2002)
From Misappropriation to Theft: A Story of Expanded Property Rights in Information, Law and
Society Annual Conference (June 2002)
The Role of Criminal Law in Regulating Use of Information: Unintended Consequences of the
Economic Espionage Act, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference (January
2002)
Privatized Justice and Cultural Minorities, Law and Society Conference (June 2001)
Chair, A Free Press and Theories of Democracy, Law and Society Conference (June 2001)
Supreme Court Employment Decisions, 2000, Southeastern Association of Law Schools
Annual Conference (July 2001)
Federal Criminal Fraud and the Development of Property Rights in Information, Southeastern
Association of Law Schools Annual Conference (July 1999)
Gays, Lesbians & Federal Employment & Discrimination Law, University of Houston Sexual
Identity Colloquium (1999)
Pierson v. Post: The Case Method Illustrated, University of Houston Committee on Scholarship
of Assessment Learning & Teaching (1999)
Federalization of Criminal Law, Leadership 2000, Fort Bend, Texas, Chamber of Commerce
(1998)
Employment Discrimination, “Know Your Rights,” The People’s Lawyer, KUHF-TV
Program (1997)
Lessons of the O.J. Simpson Trial, University of Houston Retired Faculty (1995)
GRANTS
University of Houston, Research Initiation Grant (1997)
UNIVERSITY
COMMITTEES
Committee to Review Bauer Business School Dean (2006-07)
Committee to Review Law Center Dean (2005)
Faculty Senate, Law Center Representative (2000-01)
Law Center Dean Search Committee (1999-2000)
Assessment of Learning and Teaching (1998-99)
LAW CENTER
COMMITTEES
Faculty Appointments Committee (2011-12; 2002-03; 2001-02; 1998-99)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (2010-11; 2009-10; 2005-06)
Executive Committee (elected by faculty) (2004-06; 1999-2001; 1996-98)
Chair (2005-06)
Honor Court Revision Committee (2004-05)
Criminal Justice Institute Committee (2003 to present)
Placement Director Search Committee Chair (2004)
Library Committee (2002-03; 1999-2000)
Student Affairs Committee, Chair (2000-01)
Student Affairs Committee (1999-2000; 1995-96)
Fifth Circuit Host Committee, Co-chair (1999)
Ad Hoc Criminal Law Curriculum Committee (1999)
Student Awards Committees (1997-99)
Curriculum Committee (1996-97)
Computer Committee (1996-97)