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Professor Amelia H. Boss

Amelia H. Boss, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers Camden Law School, is one of the country's leading experts in domestic and international commercial law, and in the emerging area of electronic commerce. Her activities in the law reform area domestically include participation in the drafting of the revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code (sales, leases, letters of credit, investment securities), drafting of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), preparatory work leading to the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, preparation of the White House Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (1997), and development of the E-Sign legislation. A former chair of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Assocation, she serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, and on the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code. Professor Boss is a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Financial Lawyers, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Commercial Law.

Professor Boss served as an advisor and as the United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce. She represented the U.S. in the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce and the Model Law on Electronic Signatures. She has also worked with the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) on issues involving electronic commerce. Professor Boss has published extensively domestically and internationally. Former Editor-in-Chief of The Business Lawyer as well as The DataLaw Report (published bi-monthly by Clark Boardman Callaghan), she currently serves on the editorial boards of The Business Lawyer and the Electronic Communication Law Review (formerly The EDI Law Review). In 1998, she was ranked by The National Law Journal as one of the fifty most influential women attorneys in the United States
 


Professor Jeffrey L. Dunoff

Institute Co-Director Jeffrey L. Dunoff is Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government and Academic Director of Temple Law School's Transnational Law Program. He specializes in international law, international trade law, international environmental law, and international transactions. Prior to joining the Temple faculty, he practiced law for several years in Washington, D.C., where he represented Asian, African, and Latin-American governments in a variety of international litgations, arbitrations, and transactions. He also represented developing nation governments before the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government. Professor Dunoff left practice to accept a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Public International Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Dunoff is co-author of International Law: Norms, Actors, Process, a leading international law casebook, and his international law scholarship has appeared in leading U.S. and foreign law journals. He serves as a member of EPA's National Advisory Committee, as Associate Editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law, and as Vice Chair of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law. Professor Dunoff has been a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; a Visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; and a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute in Japan.