Richard Hyland
Distinguished Professor of Law
Richard Hyland is one of the country's leading scholars in the fields of commercial and comparative law.
Biography
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 MFA 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 DC and taught at the University of Miami Law School.
Publications
2009 Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law.New York: Oxford University Press (paperback 2012)
2006 The Commercial Sales Transaction: An Introduction to Commercial Law, with D. Patterson. West casebook. 2nded. St. Paul: Thomson/West
Chapters and Book Entries
2018 Should Judges Tell Us What They Know?
InCollective Judging in Comparative Perspective: Counting Votes and Weighing Opinions, ed. Wolfgang Ernst et al. Intersentia: Cambridge (forthcoming)
2014 Codification and the American Discussion About How Judges Decide Cases.
In Codifying Contract Law, ed. Mary Keyes and Therese Wilson, 205–218.Farnham: Ashgate
2014 TheFondement.
In Les Intraduisibles en droit civil, ed. Alexandra Popovici et al., 75–101. Montreal: Thémis
2011 Môt sô nét co ban vê thâm quyên cua tòa án hành chính hoa ky, phân tích so sánh vói tòa hành chính câc nuóc thuôc hê thông dân luât[Basic Aspects of the Jurisdiction of Administrative Courts in the United States, together with a Comparative Analysis of Administrative Courts in Civil Law Countries], trans. Katia Hoang.
In Van Hóa Pháp Luât[Legal Culture: The Basic Theoretical Issues and Specialized Applications], 638–656. Hanoi: Vietnam National University Press
2011 American Private Legislatures and the Process Debate.
In Towards a European Civil Code, ed. Arthur S. Hartkamp and Christian von Bar, 71–90. 4thed. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer
2010 The RAF and the Vietnam War.
In Die RAF und die Justiz: Nachwirkungen des "Deutschen Herbstes,"ed. Volker Drecktrah, 237–275. München: Meidenbauer
2008 Fictional Truth.
InEstudos comemorativos dos 10 años da Faculdade de direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ed. Diogo Freitas do Amaral et al., 1: 137–150. Coimbra: Almedina
2004 The American Experience: Restatements, the UCC, Uniform Laws, and Transnational Coordination.
InTowards a European Civil Codeed. Arthur S. Hartkamp and E. H. Hondius,59–75.3rded. Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri
2002 Shall We Dance?
InCodici: Una riflessione di fine millennio,ed. Paolo Cappellini and Bernardo Sordi, 377–400. Milano: Giuffrè
Reprintedin English and Portuguese in civilistica.com, revista electronica de direito civil(2014)
1998 The Restatements and the Uniform Commercial Code.
In Towards a European Civil Code,ed. Arthur S. Hartkamp and Christian von Bar, 55–70. 2nded. Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri
1996 Comparative Law.
InA Companion to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory,ed. Dennis Patterson, 184–199.Cambridge: Blackwell
1994 Note to ICC Case No. 5713 of 1989.
InGuide to Practical Applications of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, ed. Albert Kritzer, 7–16. Deventer: Kluwer,
1988 Conformity of Goods to the ContractUnder the United Nations Sales Convention and the Uniform Commercial Code.
In Einheitliches Kaufrecht und nationales Obligationenrecht, ed. Peter Schlechtriem, 305–341. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Festschrift Essays
2012 The Case for the Common Law.
In Rechtsgeschäft, Methodenlehre und darüber hinaus: Liber Amicorum für Detlef Leenen, ed. Martin Häublein and Stephen Utz, 109–129. Berlin: De Gruyter
2007 Evening in Lisbon.
In Festschrift für Claus-Wilhelm Canaris zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Andreas Heldrich et al., 2: 1161–1180. München: Beck
2004 Sensibilité et passion.
In Ruptures, mouvements et continuité du droit: autour de Michelle Gobert45–59. Paris: Economica
2003 Dans la vallée de la Vie.
In Festschrift für Peter Schlechtriem, ed. Ingeborg Schwenzer and Günter Hager,69–78. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck
Journal Articles
2014 Gift and Danger, Journal of Classical Sociology14: 45–53
2010 “Mauss et moi . . .”. Sur le droit des dons, Revue du MAUSS36: 409–417
2010 Gift, Law, and Political Reform, Revue du MAUSS36: 401–08
2002 Imagine Europe, Quaderni Fiorentini31: 801–818
1997 Draft, Columbia Law Review97: 1343–1362
1997 The Role of the Trial in American Law and American Life, Yamanashigakuin L. Rev.37: 1–14
1995 Life, Death, and Contract, Northwestern Law Review90: 204–218
Reprinted in Japanese inWaseda Law Review73: 1–32 (1998)
1995 Pillow Talk, American University Journal of Gender and Law4: 77–103
1994 Pacta Sunt Servanda:A Meditation, Virginia Journal of International Law34: 405–433. Reprinted in Spanish in Del "Ius mercatorum" al derecho mercantil: III Seminario de Historia del Derecho Privado,ed. Carlos Petit, 360–381, Madrid: Marcial Pons (1997)
1994 The One and the Many, California Law Review82: 401–419
Reprinted in French in Hegel passé, Hegel à venir, ed. Claude Amey and Henri Maler, trans. Jean-Louis Kara,179–195,Paris: L’Harmattan (1995)
1992 On Setting Forth the Law of Contract: A Foreword, American Journal of Comparative Law 40: 541–550
1992 The Spinozist, Iowa Law Review77: 805–835
1990 Babel: A She’ur, Cardozo Law Review11: 1585–1612
Reprinted in: Postmodernism and Law, ed. Dennis Patterson, 127–154, New York: NYU Press (1994); Law and Language, International library of essays in law and legal theory, Second series, ed. Thomas Morawetz, 27–54, Aldershot: Ashgate/Dartmouth (2000); Clio@Themis: Revue électronique d’histoire du droit,trans. Françoise Michaut, no. 5 (2012)
1989 Hegel: A User’s Manual, Cardozo Law Review10: 1735–1831
1986 A Defense of Legal Writing,University of Pennsylvania Law Review134: 599–626. Included in The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations, ed. Fred Shapiro, 291, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1993)
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
2009 Max Radin. In The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, ed.Roger Newman, 444–445. New Haven: Yale University Press
1999 Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; and Baruch de Spinoza—three articles for The Philosophy of Law: an Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Gray, 329–331, 377–378, 829–830. New York: Garland
1990 Diritto soggetivo (nei paesi di common law)[Subjective Right in Common Law Countries].
In Digesto delle discipline privatistiche (Sezione civile)6: 433–439. 4thed. Torino: UTET
Book Reviews
2018 Review of Wolfgang Ernst, Rechtserkenntnis durch Richtermehrheiten: “group choice” in europäischen Justiztraditionen.Quaderni fiorentini 47: 560-571.
2017 On Rereading The King’s Two Bodies. Review of Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life, by Robert E. Lerner. American Journal of Comparative Law66: 458-473.
2003 Roman Lawyers and the Holocaust. Review ofCartas Romanisticas (1923-50),by Max Radin, ed. Carlos Petit. American Journal of Comparative Law51: 457–470
1997 Review of Pasiones del jurista: Amor, memoria, melancolía, imaginación, ed. Carlos Petit. Quaderni fiorentini27: 428–438
Miscellaneous
2014 Charles Reznikoff’s “Amelia”: A case study
2013 Richard Hyland on Vachel Lindsay’s “The Congo”
2012 Merger could undo university’s global initiatives,Courier-Post, February 26
2011 Harkness Goes to Law School, The Exonian, January 13
2002 Diamond Dairy Kosher Luncheonette. InCity Secrets: New York City,
- R. Kahn, 241
1969–84 Articlesin the Harvard Crimson
Translation
1986 Schlechtriem, Peter. Uniform Sales Law: The UN-Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Wien: Manz (drafted the final text)