Michelle Boardman

Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., Brown University; J.D., University of Chicago

Subjects Taught: Contracts, Insurance

Area(s) of Expertise: Commercial Insurance, Contracts, Liability Insurance, Property Insurance, Terrorism Insurance

Contact Information

Email: Send an email
Phone: 703-993-8056
Office: Room 315, Arlington Campus
Address: 3301 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22201

Biographical Sketch

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW MICHELLE BOARDMAN recently returned to the law school after taking a leave of absence to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.

After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review, Professor Boardman clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She joined the George Mason law faculty in 2002 after practicing appellate law for several years with Wiley Rein & Fielding, a leading insurance defense firm.

Recent Publications:

  • Known Unknowns: The Illusion of Terrorism Insurance, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 783 (2005).
  • Contra Proferentem: The Allure of Ambiguous Boilerplate, 104 Michigan Law Review 1105 (2006).
  • Book Chapter -- Contra Proferentem: The Allure of Ambiguous Boilerplate (Cambridge University Press,  forthcoming 2007).