Richard Hyland is one of the country's leading scholars in the fields of commercial and comparative law.
In May 2009, Oxford University Press published Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law,
Professor Hyland's comparative exploration of the law governing the
giving and revoking of gifts. It is the first wide-ranging study of the
topic, at any time and in any language. Gifts was reviewed in
legal and social science periodicals on five continents and was chosen
one of the eight law books of the year by the German legal periodical
NJW.
Professor Hyland has contributed to the revisions to the Sales
Article of the Uniform Commercial Code, 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. Professor Hyland has taught as a visiting professor
at universities in Barcelona, Berlin, Freiburg, Graz, Hanoi, Kyoto,
Lisbon, and Paris, 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.
At Rutgers, Professor Hyland was chosen by the student body as
Teacher of the Year in 1994. He has received both the Camden Provost's
Teaching Excellence Award and the Award of the Christian R. and Mary F.
Lindback Foundation for a Lifetime of Distinguished Teaching.
Professor Hyland attended Harvard College and the Boalt Hall Law School. He also holds a DEA (Diplôme d'études approfondies) in French private law from the University of Paris 2 and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Hyland worked at the
law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and taught at the
University of Miami Law School.
