Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Hyland graduated from Harvard College in
1970 and from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in
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 in Italy,
Professor Hyland completed a graduate law degree (D.E.A.) at the University of
Paris 2 in 1982 and did graduate study in law at the University of Freiburg in
Germany. He also holds an M.F.A. in fiction 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 & Burling.
Professor Hyland has taught as a visiting professor at universities in Barcelona,
Hanoi, Lisbon, Kyoto, Paris, and Tokyo, and has been Fulbright Distinguished
Scholar in Beijing and DAAD Lecturer in Berlin. He is a member of the American
Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Council on
Foreign Relations. 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. Oxford University Press recently published his
comparative study of the law of gifts. Professor Hyland has been Professor of
the Year at Rutgers and has received both the Camden Provost's Teaching
Excellence Award and the University's Lindback Award for a Lifetime of
Distinguished Teaching.
