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Distinguished Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Richard Hyland is one of the country's leading scholars in the fields of commercial and comparative law.
Prof. Hyland contributed to the revisions to the Sales Article of the Uniform Commercial Code, has served as Reporter for provisions in UNIDROIT's Principles of International Commercial Contracts, and drafted an Opinion for the Advisory Council on the Vienna Sales Convention. He also wrote the first major comparative study of the law governing the giving of gifts, which will appear in the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.
Prof. Hyland has frequently taught at foreign law schools, including in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Freiburg, and Kyoto, and as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Tokyo and Beijing. He is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Prof. Hyland graduated from Harvard College and the Boalt Hall Law School of the University of California in Berkeley. He also holds a D.E.A. from the University of Paris 2 and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University.
Before coming to Rutgers, Prof. Hyland worked at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, and taught at the University of Miami Law School in Coral Gables, Florida.
At Rutgers, Prof. Hyland was selected Teacher of the Year in 1994. He has also received the Camden Provost's Teaching Excellence Award and the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches Contracts, Commercial Law, Consumer Law, International Sales, International Commercial Arbitration, Comparative Law, Insurance Law, and Restitution.
Prof. Hyland lives with his wife and daughter in Center City, Philadelphia.
Publications
Books
AFTER STAUFFENBERG (in preparation).
THE CASE FOR THE COMMON LAW (in preparation).
"Gifts," 8 INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW, ch. 6 (forthcoming 2006).
AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL LAW (with D. Patterson) (West casebook, 1999).
Articles
"Max Radin," in THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (R. Newman ed., forthcoming 2005).
"Fictional Truth," in OUTRAS RAZÕES, OUTRAS CULTURAS, OUTROS DIREITOS (A. Hespanha ed.) (forthcoming Lisbon 2005).
"The American Experience: Restatements, the UCC, Uniform Laws, and Transnational Coordination," in TOWARDS A EUROPEAN CIVIL CODE 59 (A.S. Hartkamp et al. eds., 3d ed., 2004).
"Sensibilité et passion," in RUPTURES, MOUVEMENTS ET CONTINUITÉ DU DROIT: AUTOUR DE MICHELLE GOBERT 45 (Paris 2004).
"Roman Lawyers and the Holocaust (Book Review)," 51 AM. J. COMP. L. 401 (2003) (reviewing MAX RADIN, CARTAS ROMANISTICAS (1923-50) (C. Petit ed.
(Napoli 2001)).
"Dans la vallée de la Vie," in FESTSCHRIFT FÜR PETER SCHLECHTRIEM 69 (I. Schwenzer & G. Hager eds.) (Tübingen 2003).
"Imagine Europe," 31 QUADERNI FIORENTINI 661 (2002).
Diamond Dairy Kosher Luncheonette, in CITY SECRETS: NEW YORK CITY 241 (R. Kahn ed.) (2002).
"Shall We Dance?," in CODICI: UNA RIFLESSIONE DI FINE MILLENNIO 377 (P. Cappellini & B. Sordi eds.) (Milano 2002).
"De la propriéte au contrat," in LA PROPRIÉTÉ (E. Balibar ed.) (Paris 2001).
"Gift," "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.," and "Baruch de Spinoza," three articles for THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA 329, 377, 829 (C. Gray ed. 1999).
Book Review, 27 QUADERNI FIORENTINI PER LA STORIA DEL PENSIERO GIURIDICO MODERNO 428 (1998) (reviewing PASIONES DEL JURISTA: AMOR, MEMORIA, MELANCOLÍA, IMAGINACIÓN (C. Petit ed. 1997)).
"The Restatements and the Uniform Commercial Code," in TOWARDS A EUROPEAN CIVIL CODE 55 (A.S. Hartkamp et al. eds., 2d ed., 1998).
"Draft," 97 COLUM. L. REV. 1343 (1997).
"The Role of the Trial in American Law and American Life," YAMANASHIGAKUIN L. REV. [Japan], March 1997, at 1.
"Comparative Law," in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY 184 (D. Patterson ed., 1996).
"Life, Death, and Contract," 90 NW. L. REV. 204 (1995),
reprinted in Japanese in WASEDA LAW REVIEW, vol. 73, no. 4, at 1 (Tokyo 1998).
"Pillow Talk," 4 AM. U. J. GENDER & L. 77 (1995).
"Pacta Sunt Servanda: A Meditation," 34 VA. J. INT’L L. 405 (1994), reprinted in Spanish in DEL IUS MERCATORUM AL DERECHO MERCANTIL (C. Petit ed., Barcelona 1997).
Note to ICC Case No. 5713 of 1989, in GUIDE TO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS 7
(A. Kritzer ed., 1994).
"The One and the Many," 82 CALIF. L. REV. 401 (1994), reprinted in French in HEGEL PASSÉ, HEGEL À VENIR 179 (H. Maler ed., Paris 1995).
"On Setting Forth the Law of Contract: A Foreword,"
40 AM. J. COMP. L. 541 (1992).
"The Spinozist," 77 IOWA L. REV. 805 (1992).
"Diritto soggetivo (nei paesi di common law) [Subjective Right in Common Law Countries]," in 6 DIGESTO DELLE DISCIPLINE PRIVATISTICHE (SEZIONE CIVILE) 433 (Torino, 4th ed. 1990).
"Babel: A She’ur," 11 CARDOZO L. REV. 1585 (1990), reprinted in POSTMODERNISM AND LAW 127 (D. Patterson ed., 1994), also reprinted in LAW AND LANGUAGE 27 (International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second series) (T. Morawetz ed., 2000).
"Hegel: A User’s Manual," 10 CARDOZO L. REV. 1735 (1989).
"Conformity of Goods to the Contract Under the United Nations Sales Convention and the Uniform Commercial Code," in EINHEITLICHES KAUFRECHT UND NATIONALES OBLIGATIONENRECHT 305 (P. Schlechtriem ed., 1987).
"A Defense of Legal Writing," 134 U. PA. L. REV. 599 (1986), included in THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LEGAL QUOTATIONS 291 (F. Shapiro ed. 1993).
Translations
P. SCHLECHTRIEM, UNIFORM SALES LAW (Vienna 1986).
Interview
"Legal Education in Japan and the United States" (with Prof. Yoshihisa Nomi), HOGAKU-KYOSHITSU, no. 204, at 43 (Tokyo 1997) (translated into Japanese).