George Mocsary
Professor of Law
University of Wyoming College of Law
George A. Mocsary is professor of law at the University of Wyoming College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He also is founder and director of the Firearms Research Center and director of the Business Planning Practicum.
His research focuses on corporate and small-business law, firearms law, and the Second Amendment, including the intersection of firearms law and private law. He is the co-author of “Firearms Law and the Second Amendment: Regulation, Rights, and Policy,” the first casebook devoted to the subject.
Mocsary previously served as an associate professor of law at the Southern Illinois University School of Law and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Before entering academia, he practiced corporate and bankruptcy law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge Harris L. Hartz of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
His distinctions include graduating first in his class at Fordham Law School, serving as notes and articles editor of the Fordham Law Review, and receiving the Benjamin Finkel Prize for Excellence in Bankruptcy and the Fordham Law Alumni Association Medal in Constitutional Law.
He earned a J.D., summa cum laude, from Fordham Law School, an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester Simon School of Business, and a bachelor’s from The Cooper Union School of Engineering.
