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PETER WINSHIP

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Address

S.M.U. School of Law, P.O. Box 750116
Dallas, Texas 75275-0116
Tel. (214) 768-2575
Fax (214) 768-4330 or 768-3142
E-mail: pwinship@mail.smu.edu

1999-2000

University of Connecticut School of Law
65 Elizabeth Street
Hartford, CT 06105
Tel. (860) 570-5484
Fax (860) 570-5128
E-mail: Pwinship@law.uconn.edu

Education

A.B. (Harvard), 1964; LL.B. (Harvard), 1968; LL.M. (London), 1973; J.S.D. cand. (Yale), 1973-1974

Employment career

1974-present: Southern Methodist University (James Cleo Thompson Sr. Trustee Professor of Law, 1990-present)

Visiting Professor, University of Miami School of Law, Fall 1997; Visiting Scholar, Georgetown School of Law, Washington, D.C., January-December 1995; Visiting Professor, University of Rome ("La Sapienza"), March 1994; Lecturer, China Center for American Law Study program, Shanghai, China, May-June, 1993; Visting Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1992; Mills E. Godwin Visiting Professor of Law, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary, Spring 1990; Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1989; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Konstanz, Spring 1989; Visiting Lecturer, Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, March 1989 & March-April 1987; Visiting Professor of Law, Cayman Islands Law School, December 1986; Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego (London Program), Summer 1986; Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1986; Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, 1981-1982; Scholar in Residence, King's College, University of London, Fall 1981; Visiting Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-1980; Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas, Austin, Summer 1978

1973-1974: Yale University (candidate for J.S.D.; affiliated with Law & Modernization Program)

1972-1973: London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London (candidate for LL.M.)

1970-1972: Lecturer, Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1968-1970: Legal Adviser, Imperial Ethiopian Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Academic and Professional Positions

Member, American Law Institute

Member, [U.S.] Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law

[U.S.] National Correspondent, United Nations Commission for International Trade Law

Correspondent, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome

Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of Comparative Law

Member, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Commission on International Trade Law Working Group on International Contract Practices [Assignment of Receivables]

Selected Bibliography

A. Books [Selected]

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS/PAYMENT SYSTEMS (Santa Monica: Casenotes, 1995) (with Donald B. King)

COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: TEXT, CASES AND PROBLEMS (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985) (with Jonathan A. Eddy)

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS OF THE ETHIOPIAN COMMERCIAL CODE (edited and translated) (Addis Ababa: Faculty of Law, H.S.I.U., 1974)

B. Articles [Selected]

Karl Llewellyn in Rome, 3 Unif. L. Rev. 725-738 (1998)

International Commercial Transactions: 1997, 53 Bus. Law. 1521-1530 (1998)

Selected Security Interests in the United States, in Joseph J. Norton & Mads Andenas eds., EMERGING FINANCIAL MARKETS AND SECURED TRANSACTIONS 267-278 (London: Kluwer Law Int'l 1998)

International Commercial Transactions: 1996, 52 Bus. Law. 1643-1652 (1997)

The U.N. Sales Convention and the Emerging Caselaw, in EMPTIO-VENDITIO INTER NATIONES: IN ANERKENNUNG FÜR LEHRTÄTIGKEIT KARL HEINZ NEUMAYER 227-237 (Basel: Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft AG, 1997)

Unification of Law in the United States: an Updated Sketch, 1 Unif. L. Rev./Rev. dr. unif. 633-651 (1996)

International Commercial Transactions: 1995, 51 Bus. Law. 1493 (1996)

As the World Turns: Revisiting Rudolf Schlesinger's Study of the Uniform Commercial Code "in the Light of Comparative Law, 29 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 1143 (1996)

Changing Contract Practices in the Light of the United Nations Sales Convention: A Guide for Practitioners, 29 Int'l Law. 525-554 (1995), reprinted in 9 Int'l Q. 110-148 (1997)

Current Developments Concerning the Form of Bills of Lading in the United States, in A.N. Yiannopoulos ed., OCEAN BILLS OF LADING: TRADITIONAL FORMS, SUBSTITUTES, AND EDI SYSTEMS 263-296 (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995)

International Harmonization of Private Law, in Marylin J. Raisch & Roberta I. Shaffer eds., INTRODUCTION TO TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL TRANSACTIONS 157-186 (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1995)

The Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods: The United States Adopts UNCITRAL's First-Born, 28 Int'l Law. 1071-1081 (1994)

The U.N. Sales Convention: A Bibliography of English-Language Publications, 28 Int'l Law. 401-423 (1994)

The First 'Case Law' under the Vienna Convention, in CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LAW ISSUES: OPPORTUNITIES AT A TIME OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE 122-127 (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1994)

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the International Unification of Private Law, 13 U. Pa. J. Int'l Bus. L. 227-285 (1992)

The Law Professor Refugee, 18 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 3-20 (1992) [with Bernhard Grossfeld]

Domesticating International Commercial Law: Revising U.C.C. Article 2 in Light of the United Nations Sales Convention, 37 Loyola L. Rev. 43 (1991)

Energy Contracts and the United Nations Sales Convention, 25 Tex. Int'l L.J. 365 (1990)

Final Provisions of UNCITRAL's International Commercial Law Conventions, 24 Int'l Law. 711 (1990)

Private International Law and the U.N. Sales Convention, 16 Cornell Int'l L.J. 487 (1988)

The Scope of the Vienna Convention on International Sales Contracts, in Nina M. Galston & Hans Smit eds., INTERNATIONAL SALES: THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS, ch. 1 (New York: Matthew Bender & Co., 1984)

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