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Biography
Ronald is a nationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of electronic commerce and commercial law. He is a professor of law at Columbia Law School and is Co-Chair of the Charles E. Gerber Transactional Studies Program. Prior to that he founded and Co-Directed the Center for Law, Business, and Economics at the University Of Texas School Of Law. He has clerked for Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court and has published a number of books and articles, including two widely used commercial law casebooks. In addition, Ronald co-authored the first American legal casebook in electronic commerce.
Ronald is also an experienced appellate advocate, who spent three years in the Office of Solicitor General during the Bush and Clinton administrations. He argued eight cases before the United States Supreme Court and wrote briefs on the merits in more than 40 cases. Ronald specialized in Business Bankruptcy cases, arguing and winning cases before the Supreme Court in three consecutive years. Ronald also represented the Office of the Independent Counsel in a variety of appellate matters, including the secret service privilege litigation in Rubin v. United States, 119 S. Ct. 1 (1998) and United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000).
Ronald has taught at some of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. He was the Ben H. & Kitty King Powell Chair in Business and Commercial Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law for four years. Prior to that Ronald was the Roy F. & Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law for six years at the University of Michigan Law School. He also taught at Washington University in St. Louis and, in the spring of 2005, he was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Education, Honors, & Awards
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX, 1985
First in class
Managing Editor, Texas Law Review
B.A., magna cum laude, Rice University, Houston,
TX, 1982
Professional and Community Involvement
Ronald is a member of the American Law Institute and recently served as the Reporter for the amendments to Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is also a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and was a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference Capital Markets Committee (2003-04). He is also affiliated with the International Academy of Consumer and Commercial Law and has been a visiting scholar at the Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Bar Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
State of Texas
News and Publications
Books
Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets Around the World, (Cambridge U. Press 2006)
Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach Comprehensive Commercial Law Statutory Supplement (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2005) (with Elizabeth Warren & Jay Westbrook)
Payment Systems and other Financial Transactions Cases, Materials, and Problems (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 2006; 2nd ed. 2003; 1st ed. 1999)
Electronic Commerce (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2nd ed. 2005; 1st ed. 2002) (with Jane K. Winn)
Comprehensive Commercial Law Statutory Supplement (Aspen 2002-2006) (with Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook)
Articles
Patent, Venture Capital, and Software Start-ups (RESEARCH POLICY forthcoming with Thomas W. Sager)
The Supreme Court, the Solicitor General, and Bankruptcy: BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2007)
Just Until Payday, 54 UCLA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2007) (with Jim Hawkins)
The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?, 20 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 1 (Fall 2006)
Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?, 83 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 961 (2005)
The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability, 47 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 239 (2005) (with Seth Belzley)
Languages
Greek
Latin
Biblical Hebrew
Old English
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