Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Hyland graduated from
Harvard College in 1970 and from Boalt Hall Law School at the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1980. 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. He has also done graduate work in Berlin and Freiburg
and holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University. Before joining the law
faculty of the University of Miami in 1986, Professor Hyland was a lawyer with Covington
& Burling in Washington, D.C. He 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, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Scientific
Council of Quaderni fiorentini, one
of most respected journals of legal history. 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 Patterson). Oxford University
Press recently published the paperback edition of his monumental comparative
study of the law governing the giving of gifts in the common and civil laws.
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.
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