Professor Hyland is one of the country's leading scholars in the fields of commercial and comparative law. He has published widely in these fields as well as in the field of legal theory.
In May 2009, Oxford University Press published Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law, Professor Hyland's wide-ranging comparative investigation of the law governing the giving of gifts.
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. 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.
Books
THE CASE FOR THE COMMON LAW (in preparation).
GIFTS: A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE LAW (Oxford University Press 2009).
THE COMMERCIAL SALES TRANSACTION: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL LAW (with D. Patterson) (West casebook, 2nd ed. 2006).
Chapters
"The RAF and the Vietnam War," in DIE RAF UND DIE JUSTIZ (V. Drecktrah ed., forthcoming Tübingen 2009).
"Fictional Truth," in 1 ESTUDOS COMEMORATIVOS DOS 10 ANOS DA FACULDADE DE DIREITO DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA 137-150 (Dioro Freitas do Amaral et al. eds.) (Lisbon 2008).
"Evening in Lisbon," in 2 FESTSCHRIFT FÜR CLAUS-WILHELM CANARIS 1161 (A. Heldrich et al. eds., München 2007).
"The American Experience: Restatements, the UCC, Uniform Laws, and Transnational Coordination,"
in TOWARDS A EUROPEAN CIVIL CODE 59 (A.S. Hartkamp et al. eds., 3d ed., 2004).
"Sensibilité et passion," in RUPTURES, MOUVEMENTS ET CONTINUITÉ DU DROIT: AUTOUR DE MICHELLE GOBERT 45 (Paris 2004).
"Dans la vallée de la Vie," in FESTSCHRIFT FÜR PETER SCHLECHTRIEM 69 (I. Schwenzer & G. Hager eds.) ( Tübingen 2003).
"De la propriéte au contrat," in LA PROPRIÉTÉ (E. Balibar ed.) (Paris 2001).
"The Restatements and the Uniform Commercial Code," in TOWARDS A EUROPEAN CIVIL CODE 55 (A.S. Hartkamp et al. eds., 2d ed., 1998).
"Comparative Law," in A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY 184 (D. Patterson ed., 1996).
"Conformity of Goods to the Contract Under the United Nations Sales Convention and the Uniform Commercial Code," in EINHEITLICHES KAUFRECHT UND NATIONALES OBLIGATIONENRECHT 305 (P. Schlechtriem ed., 1987).
Articles
"Max Radin," in THE YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (R. Newman ed., forthcoming 2009).
"Roman Lawyers and the Holocaust," 51 AM. J. COMP. L. 401 (2003) (reviewing MAX RADIN, CARTAS ROMANISTICAS (1923-50) (C. Petit ed.
(Napoli 2001)).
"Imagine Europe," 31 QUADERNI FIORENTINI 801 (2002).
"Diamond Dairy Kosher Luncheonette," in CITY SECRETS: NEW YORK CITY 241 (R. Kahn ed.) (2002).
"Shall We Dance?," in CODICI: UNA RIFLESSIONE DI FINE MILLENNIO 377 (P. Cappellini & B. Sordi eds.) (Milano 2002).
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"Gift," "Oliver Wendell Holmes," and "Baruch de Spinoza," three articles for THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA 329, 377, 829 (C. Gray ed. 1999).
Book Review, 27 QUADERNI FIORENTINI PER LA STORIA DEL PENSIERO GIURIDICO MODERNO 428 (1998) (reviewing PASIONES DEL JURISTA: AMOR, MEMORIA, MELANCOLÍA, IMAGINACIÓN (C. Petit ed. 1997)).
"Draft," 97 COLUM. L. REV. 1343 (1997).
"The Role of the Trial in American Law and American Life," YAMANASHIGAKUIN L. REV. [Japan], March 1997, at 1.
"Life, Death, and Contract", 90 NW. L. REV. 204 (1995),reprinted in Japanese in WASEDA LAW REVIEW, vol. 73, no. 4, at 1 (Tokyo 1998).
"Pillow Talk," 4 AM. U. J. GENDER & L. 77 (1995).
"Pacta Sunt Servanda: A Meditation," 34 VA. J. INT’L L. 405 (1994), reprinted in Spanish in DEL IUS MERCATORUM AL DERECHO MERCANTIL (C. Petit ed., Barcelona 1997).
Note to ICC Case No. 5713 of 1989, in GUIDE TO PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS 7 (A. Kritzer ed., 1994).
"The One and the Many," 82 CALIF. L. REV. 401 (1994), reprinted in French in HEGEL PASSÉ, HEGEL À VENIR 179 (H. Maler ed., Paris 1995).
"On Setting Forth the Law of Contract: A Foreword," 40 AM. J. COMP. L. 541 (1992).
"The Spinozist," 77 IOWA L. REV. 805 (1992).
"Diritto soggetivo (nei paesi di common law) [Subjective Right in Common Law Countries]," in 6 DIGESTO DELLE DISCIPLINE PRIVATISTICHE (SEZIONE CIVILE) 433 (Torino, 4th ed. 1990).
"Babel: A She’ur," 11 CARDOZO L. REV. 1585 (1990), reprinted in POSTMODERNISM AND LAW 127 (D. Patterson ed., 1994), also reprinted in LAW AND LANGUAGE 27 (International library of essays
in law and legal theory. Second series) (T. Morawetz ed., 2000).
"Hegel: A User’s Manual," 10 CARDOZO L. REV. 1735 (1989).
""A Defense of Legal Writing, 134 U. PA. L. REV. 599 (1986), included in THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LEGAL QUOTATIONS 291 (F. Shapiro ed. 1993).
Translation
P. SCHLECHTRIEM, UNIFORM SALES LAW (Vienna 1986) (rewrote the draft translation).
INTERVIEW
Legal Education in Japan and the United States (with Prof. Yoshihisa Nomi), HOGAKU-KYOSHITSU, no. 204, at 43 (Tokyo 1997) (translated into Japanese).
PRINCIPAL UNPUBLISHED PRESENTATIONS
Doctoral Seminar, New University of Lisbon, Portugal (March 2005).
Institute of Comparative Law, University of Heidelberg, Germany (July 2004).
Symposium Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Japanese Civil Code, Universitites of Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan (November 1998).
Keynote Address, Law Faculty Day, Free University, Berlin, Germany (July 1998).
The Internationalization of Commercial Law, Northwestern Law School, Chicago (Sept. 1994).
Law and the Postmodern Mind, Cardozo Law School, New York (Sept. 1993).
Colloquium on European Contract Law, Barcelona, Spain (July 1993).
Law Between Logic and Politics, Collège international de philosophie, Paris (May 1992).
Faculty of Law, University of Montpelier, Montpelier, France (May 1992).
Society of Comparative Legislation, Paris, France (Dec. 1991).
Max Planck Institute for International and Foreign Private Law, Hamburg (Sept. 1991).
University of Hokkaido Law Faculty, Sapporo, Japan (Feb. 1997).
New Developments in Contract Formation, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Nov. 1996).
Japan Christian Artist Center, Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 1996).
Civil Law Study Group, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (July 1996).
University of Texas Law School, Austin (March 1996).
European Law Students’ Association, West Berlin, West Germany (July 1989).
Bruno Leuschner College of Economics, East Berlin, East Germany (June 1989).
