L. Leon Geyer Professor Resources and Environmental Economics J.D. 1973, University of Notre Dame Ph.D. 1983, University of Minnesota Office: 206B Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540)231-4528 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: geyer@vt.edu

Leon Geyer joined the faculty in 1981. He conducts research in law and economics, working in areas such as the environment, commercial law, business organization, taxation, and tort problems of the farm and commercial sectors. Current research projects address the divorce impact on farm assets and the Limited Liability Company Acts.

Before coming to Virginia Tech, Professor Geyer worked as an economist and attorney for USDA and the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives. He served as the Altheimer Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas in 1990; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 1994; Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Faculty of Law, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1995. He is advisor to the Undergraduate Honor System; President of the Faculty Senate; and President elect, American Agricultural Law Association.

Professor Geyer currently teaches undergraduate courses in environmental and agricultural law, and real estate appraisal and law. Departmental students have selected him as the Outstanding Teacher three times and he has received the College Certificate of Teaching Excellence. He was selected to receive the 1997 Alumni Academic Advising Award. He was presented with the 1999 American Agricultural Law Association Award for Excellence for Professional Scholarship. Professor Geyer speaks often to extension audiences and leads continuing legal education seminars including a popular tax practitioner workshop. He has served the college and university on all major undergraduate academic committees and in multiple leadership positions. He is father of two college students.

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Selected Publications:

(with co-author Joseph K. Sowers) "Ecotaxation", Encyclopedia of Global Change, Oxford University Press, August, 2001.

(with co-authors Alex White and Jesse Richardson, Jr.) "Let's Play Family Feud or Why Estate and Retirement Planning is for Everyone," Horizons, VA Tech, Nov/Dec 2000, Vol. 12, No. 6.

(with co-author Jesse Richardson, Jr.) "Ten Limitations to Ponder on Farm Limited Liability Companies", Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, Vol. 4, No. 1 Spring 1999, pp. 197-214.

(with co-authors Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman) "Toward and Effective Watershed-Based Effluent Allowance Trading System: Identifying the Statutory and Regulatory Barriers to Implementation, ABA, Environmental Law, Vol. 5, No. 3, June, 1999, pp. 775-815.

(with co-author J.K. Sowers) "Managing Coastal Land Use through Land Policy with Implications for Conservation Easements", 9th Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Tromso, Norway, Vol. 2, 1999, pp. 588-594.

"The Agricultural Lawyers' Guide to the Internet", Drake Law Review. Spring 1998, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 53-101.

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