Courses Offered:

Contracts I
Contracts II
Payment Systems
Corporate Finance

Professional Biographical Information:

Robert P. Bartlett, III joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2005 as an assistant professor, where he specializes in business and contract law.

Prior to becoming a Georgia Law faculty member, he served as a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law where he taught Contracts and a seminar on the private equity market. He was also a corporate associate in the Menlo Park, CA, and Waltham, MA, offices of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian.

Bartlett's primary area of research focuses on the relationship between contract theory and complex business transactions, with a particular emphasis on private equity transactions. Bartlett has also written and coauthored a number of practice-oriented guides for practitioners in the private equity marketplace, including "Understanding Price-Based Antidilution Protection: Five Principles to Apply When Negotiating a Down-Round Financing" in The Business Lawyer (2003) and "The Ancillary Agreements" in The Acquisition & Sale of the Emerging Growth Company: The M&A Exit (2004). In addition, Bartlett is the author of "Cyberspace Regulation and the Discourse of State Sovereignty" in the Harvard Law Review (1999).

Currently, he is an advisory board member to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Model Document Working Group, a consortium of lawyers responsible for drafting and maintaining the NVCA's model documents for venture capital financing transactions.

Bartlett is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as a notes editor of the Harvard Law Review and was a semifinalist in Harvard's Ames Moot Court Competition. He also earned his undergraduate degree magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, where he was the recipient of the Detur Prize and David Donald Prize as well as a John Harvard Scholarship and a Harvard College Fellowship.