Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Hyland graduated from Harvard College in 1970 and from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1980, where he was an editor of the law review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After spending a year as a Fulbright scholar to Italy, Professor Hyland completed a graduate law degree (D.E.A.) at the University of Paris 2 in 1982. Before joining the law faculty of the University of Miami in 1986, he was an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington and Burling. Professor Hyland has taught at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin in Germany; at the Universities of Paris 1 and 2 in France; at the Autonomous University in Barcelona, Spain; and as a Fulbright senior scholar at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is a member of the Florida Bar. Professor Hyland served as reporter for two provisions of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and has been active on a committee of the American Law Institute involved in revising the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Hyland`s numerous legal publications include a recently completed volume on gift law for the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.