HARVEY GELB

kepler chair in law & leadership
  AND Professor of Law

Office: 210 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-3367
Email address: hgelb@uwyo.edu

Harvey Gelb has been a member of the University of Wyoming’s College of Law faculty since 1979. Selected as the Winston S. Howard Distinguished Professor of Law in 1996, his teaching excellence was rewarded again in 2001 with the receipt of the UW John P. Ellbogen Meritorious Classroom Teaching Award. He teaches classes in Advanced Business Organizations; Business Organizations; Business Planning; Labor Law; and Securities Regulation.

Following graduation from Harvard, Gelb was a Law Clerk to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Roberts and Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge J. Sydney Hoffman. He became the City Solicitor in Scranton Pennsylvania in 1966. Gelb practiced privately in Scranton before joining the law faculty at UW. During that time he served as Arbitrator, Attorney Examiner, and Hearing Officer for judicial and administrative cases.

Having written extensively in business ethics and securities regulation, Gelb has also served on numerous American Bar Association Committees such as Corporate Litigation, Federal Regulation of Securities, and SEC Enforcement Matters.

Education

B.A., Harvard University (1957), magna cum laude.

J.D., Harvard University (1960), cum laude.

Recent Publications

Corporate Governance and the Independence Myth, 6 Wyo.L.Rev. 131 (2006).

 

Fiduciary Duties and Dissolution in the Closely Held Business, 3 WYO.L.REV. 547 (2003).

 

Corporate Governance Guidelines: A Delaware Response, 1 WYO.L.REV. 523 (2001).
 

CERCLA versus Corporate Limited Liability, 48 U. KAN. L. REV. 111 (1999).
 

The Corporate Opportunity Doctrine - Recent Cases and the Elusive Goal of Clarity, 31 U. RICH. REV. 371 (1997).

Presentations

CLE instructor, “Corporate Crime,” University of Wyoming College of Law, February 1998.

CLE instructor, “Reading the Law: Literature and Legal Ethics,” Wyoming Council for the Humanities and University of Wyoming College of Law, Jackson, WY, November 1998; Casper, WY, April 1999; and Gillette, WY, May 1999.

Moderator, “The Lawyer’s Role in Business Governance: An Ethics Symposium, April 11, 2003.