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 II in 1982 and
did graduate study in law at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He also
holds an M.F.A. from the Columbia University School of the
Arts. 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 schools in Paris, Berlin,
Barcelona, and Kyoto, and as a Fulbright scholar at the
University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Tokyo and at
Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a member of the Florida
Bar, the American Law Institute, and the International Academy
of Comparative Law. Professor Hyland served as reporter for two
provisions of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial
Contracts and was active in the revisions to the Sales
Article of the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Hyland's
numerous legal publications include a commercial law casebook with
Professor Dennis Patterson and a recently completed volume on gift law
for the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. Professor Hyland received the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999.
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