Keith A. Rowley | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Keith A. Rowley
		William S. Boyd Professor of Law


		Phone: 702-895-4993 Email: keith.rowley@unlv.edu Website: Click here

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., Baylor University, 1985 M.P.P., Harvard University, 1987 J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1992

	Professor Rowley graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Baylor University. After earning his M.P.P. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he returned to Baylor to teach economics and public policy. He earned his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as an executive editor of the Texas Law Review and as a judicial intern to then-Texas Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Doggett. Following a clerkship with Judge Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, he practiced law in Houston for five years, with an emphasis on commercial litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts. Professor Rowley taught at Mississippi College School of Law and Emory University School of Law before joining the Boyd School of Law faculty in 2001. He spent the 2007-08 academic year as the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Visiting Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. His current and recent teaching areas are Contracts, Contract Theory and Policy, Debt, Economics and the Law, Payment Systems, Sales & Leases, and Secured Transactions. He also organizes and hosts the law school’s Law and Popular Culture Film Series, which he inaugurated in October 2003. Professor Rowley currently writes primarily in the areas of contracts, commercial law, and law and popular culture. In addition to the items listed below, he is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and essays. Professor Rowley is an elected member of the American Law Institute, serves on the Executive Committees of the AALS's Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law and Section on Contracts, and is an officer of the ABA Business Law Section's Uniform Commercial Code Committee and the American Bankruptcy Institute’s UCC Committee.

	Areas of Expertise: Commercial Law Contracts Economics and the Law Law and Popular Culture

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Inside Secured Transactions: What Matters and Why? (Aspen forthcoming 2010). Questions & Answers: Sales, Leases, and Electronic Contracts (LexisNexis forthcoming 2009). 10 Corbin on Contracts (Joseph M. Perillo ed., rev. ed. LexisNexis forthcoming 2009). Understanding Sales and Leases (2d ed. LexisNexis forthcoming 2009) (with William H. Henning & William H. Lawrence). Global Issues In Contract Law (West 2007) (with Andrea K. Bjorklund, Louis F. Del Duca, Michael P. Malloy & John A. Spanogle, Jr.). Questions & Answers: Contracts (LexisNexis 2003 & 1st rev. ed. 2006). BOOK CHAPTERS Is There a Lawyer in the (White) House? Portraying Lawyers on The West Wing, in Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (Michael Asimow ed., ABA Forthcoming 2009). The Convention on the International Sale of Goods, in Howard O. Hunter, Modern Law Of Contracts ch. 23 (West 3d ed. rev. 2007). Electronic Contracting, in Howard O. Hunter, Modern Law Of Contracts ch. 26 (West 3d ed. rev. 2007). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY ARTICLES Colloquy, Transactional Economics: Victor Goldberg’s Framing Contract Law, 49 S. Tex. L. Rev. 469 (2007) (with Mark P. Gergen, Victor Goldberg & Stewart Macaulay). Lexis Westlaw To Err Is Human, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1407 (2006) (reviewing E. Allan Farnsworth, Alleviating Mistakes: Reversal and Forgiveness for Flawed Perceptions (2004)). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein You Asked for It, You Got It … Toy Yoda: Practical Jokes, Prizes, and Contract Law , 3 Nev. L.J. 526 (2003). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS Editor, Legal Scholarship Network, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Research Paper Series, http://www.ssrn.com/link/U-Nevada-Las-Vegas-LEG.html (2007- ). Contributing Editor, ContractsProf Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/ (2005- ). Contributor, Commercial Law, http://www.ucclaw.blogspot.com/ (2008- ). Contributor, Institute of International Commercial Law CISG Database, http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/ (2008- ). --> More Publications (pdf)

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