MID-SOUTH COMMERCIAL LAW INSTITUTE FACULTY
CHRIS GUTHRIE
CHRIS GUTHRIE, the Dean and John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, is a leading expert on behavioral law and economics, dispute resolution, negotiation, and judicial decision making. Over the course of his academic career, he has been recognized for his research and teaching with two CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution Professional Article Prizes, the 2003-04 Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award at Northwestern, and multiple teaching and research prizes at the University of Missouri, among other awards. He is one of the authors of the influential textbook Dispute Resolution & Lawyers and has published more than 40 scholarly articles and essays in leading law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.Dean Guthrie joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2002 and served as the law school's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004 to 2008. He became Dean in July 2009, after having spent half of his academic career serving as an Associate Dean at both Vanderbilt and the University of Missouri School of Law, where he taught from 1996 to 2002. During his academic career, Dean Guthrie has served as a Visiting Professor at Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Washington University. Before entering the legal academy, he practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.
Dean Guthrie graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University, before earning his master's in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and then a law degree from Stanford Law School. At Vanderbilt, Dean Guthrie has taught Torts, Negotiation, and Dispute Resolution.
