Eric J. Gouvin

Director, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Professor of Law

EDUCATION

B.A., Cornell University
J.D. , LL.M., Boston University
M.P.A., Harvard University

COURSES TAUGHT

Business Organizations
Business Planning
Secured Transactions
Transactional Lawyering Seminar
Small Business Legal Clinic

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: eric.gouvin@law.wne.edu
Phone: 413-796-2031
Office: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

GENERAL INFORMATION

Professor Gouvin practiced corporate, commercial, and banking law with a large firm in Portland, Maine. He worked on matters for business clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small, closely held concerns. He has been very involved in transactional law education and the promotion of entrepreneurship, having founded the Small Business Clinic at Western New England, serving on the Board of Editors for the Kauffman Foundation’s eLaw website, and being a member of the Board of Advisors for the Scibelli Enterprise Center and for the Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative.  Professor Gouvin is currently Chair of the AALS Section on Transactional Law and Skills.

His areas of scholarly interest include corporate, banking and entrepreneurship law, often with an international or comparative perspective. He is a coauthor of the treatise Blumberg on Corporate Groups and numerous law review articles on a wide variety of topics. He has also written several lessons on corporate law for the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) library. Professor Gouvin is an active member of the American Bar Association, where he has chaired the Adjunct Faculty Committee for the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and has previously co-chaired the Business Law Education Committee for the Business Law Section.

In addition to his service at Western New England, Professor Gouvin has also taught a course in comparative corporate law several times as a Visiting Professor at the Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense and at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania.  In the spring of 2012 he delivered a series of lectures in Chongqing China at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law as a Fulbright Specialist.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, Committee on Adjunct Faculty, BEST PRACTICES REPORT ON THE USE OF ADJUNCT FACULTY (Eric J. Gouvin ed. and contributor 2011). SSRN Digital Commons

ERIC J. GOUVIN, BLUMBERG ON CORPORATE GROUPS (2d ed. 2005)(with Phillip Blumberg, Kurt Strasser, and Nicholas Georgakopoulos). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, THE LAW OF CORPORATE GROUPS: STATUTORY LAW - SPECIFIC (Aspen Law & Business, annual supps. 2000-2002). SSRN

Eric J. Gouvin, LAW OF CORPORATE GROUPS: JURISDICTION PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (2007) (with Phillip Blumberg, Kurt Strasser, and Nicholas Georgakopoulos). SSRN Digital Commons

Book Chapters

Eric J. Gouvin, Of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs: Toward a Public Policy That Supports New Venture Formation, in ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN EVOLVING ECONOMIES: THE ROLE OF LAW, 27 (Megan M. Carpenter, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012).

Eric J. Gouvin, On Death and Magic: Law, Necromancy, and the Great Beyond, in LAW AND MAGIC: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS (Christine A. Corcos, ed., 2010). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, The Magic of Money and Banking, in THE LAW AND HARRY POTTER (Jeffrey E. Thomas and Franklin G. Snyder, eds., 2010). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Bank Mergers in North America: Comparing the Approaches in the United States and Canada, ch. 11, in BANK MERGERS: THE GLOBAL SCENARIO (2006).

Eric J. Gouvin, Financial Holding Company Liability After Gramm-Leach-Bliley, in FINANCIAL MODERNIZATION AFTER GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY 37-63 (Patricia A. McCoy ed., 2002). SSRN Digital Commons

Journal Articles

Eric J. Gouvin, Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, Inc.: The Backstory, 33 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 269 (2011). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Teaching Business Lawyering in Law Schools: A Candid Assessment of the Challenges and Some Suggestions for Moving Ahead, 78 UMKC L. REV. 429 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Are There Any Checks and Balances on the Government's Power to Check Our Balances? The Fate of Financial Privacy in the War on Terror, 14 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 517 (2005). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Learning Business Law by Doing It: Real Transactions in Law School Clinics, BUSINESS LAW TODAY, Sept.-Oct. 2004, at 53. SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Radical Tax Reform, Municipal Finance, and the Conservative Agenda, 56 RUTG. L. REV. 409 (2004). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Bringing Out the Big Guns: The USA PATRIOT Act, Money Laundering, and the War on Terrorism, 55 BAYLOR L. REV. 955 (2003). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, The Political Economy of Canada's "Widely Held" Rule for Large Banks, 32 LAW & POL'Y INT'L BUS. 391 (2001). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Rural Low-Income Housing and Massachusetts Chapter 40B: A Perspective from the Zoning Board of Appeals, 23 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 3 (2001). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Cross-Border Bank Branching Under the NAFTA: Public Choice and the Law of Corporate Groups, 13 CONN. J. INT'L L. 257 (1999).

Eric J. Gouvin, Of Hungry Wolves and Horizontal Conflicts: Rethinking the Justifications for Bank Holding Company Liability, 1999 U. ILL. L. REV. 949 (1999). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Banking in North America: The Triumph of Public Choice Over Public Policy, 32 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 1 (1998). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Shareholder Enforced Market Discipline: How Much is Too Much?, 16 ANN. REV. BANKING LAW 311 (1997).

Eric J. Gouvin, Resolving the Subsidiary Director's Dilemma, 47 HASTINGS L.J. 287 (1996). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, A Square Peg in a Vicious Circle: Stephen Breyer's Optimistic Prescription for the Regulatory Mess, 32 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 473 (1995). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Truth in Savings and the Failure of Legislative Methodology, 62 U. CIN. L. REV. 1281 (1994). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Note, Drunk Driving and the Alcoholic Offender: A New Approach to an Old Problem, 12 AM. J. L. & MED. (1987).

Conference Proceedings

Eric J. Gouvin, Forward: Entrepreneurship in a Flat, Green, Cash-Strapped World, 31 WESTERN NEW ENGLAND L. REV 581 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Interdisciplinary Transactional Courses, 12 TRANSACTIONS 101 (2011) (with Robert Statchen, Anthony J. Luppino, and William A. Kell). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, The Document Package Exam, in TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING LAW 2 299-301 (Gerald F. Hess et. al. eds., 2011). Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Foreword: Law, Business, and Economic Development - Current Issues and Age-Old Battles, 29 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 1 (2006). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Symposium: Current Issues in Community Economic Development: Foreword: Entrepreneurship, Race, and the Current Environment for Community Economic Development, 30 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 1 (2007). SSRN Digital Commons

Eric J. Gouvin, Upper-Level Courses: Three Exemplars, 12 TRANSACTIONS 377 (2011) (with Mark Fagan, Tamar Frankel, and Kathy Z. Heller). SSRN Digital Commons