PING: Contracts Prof Weekly Spotlight: George W. KuneyURL: http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Tennessee/95700.aspx?src=blogIP: 71.127.135.222BLOG NAME: University UpdateDATE: 11/16/2006 06:10:19 AM
George W. Kuney (University of Tennessee College of Law)
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
J.D., Univerisity of California, Hastings College of Law
M.B.A., University of San Diego
George W. Kuney is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law at University of Tennessee College of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Contract Drafting, Debtor-Creditor, Property, Representing Enterprises and Workouts & Reorganizations.
ProfessorKuney was born andraised in San Francisco and was a partner in the San Diego office of AllenMatkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP where he concentrated his practice oninsolvency and reorganization matters nationwide. Prior to that hereceived his training with Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson &Falk LLP and Morrison & Foerster LLP.
ProfessorKuney’s expertise and scholarly interests relate to business transactions andlitigation with an emphasis on acquisitions, recapitalizations, reorganizationsand financing. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Corporate Governance, amulti-disciplinary research center of the University of Tennessee. He is also an Editor Emeritus of the CaliforniaBankruptcy Journal andthe Business Law Newsand is currently the editorial advisor to Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law. He teaches Contracts, Contract Drafting, Property, Debtor-Creditor,Workouts & Reorganizations, and a transactional simulation seminar atUT. He is an author of Kuney & Lloyd, Contracts: Transactionsand Litigation (West 2006) and the author of The Elements of Contract Drafting(2d Ed. West 2006) and Legal Drafting in a Nutshell (3d Ed. West 2007), as wellas a number of law review and other articles.
Inaddition to his other activities, professor Kuney consults for outside clientson matters related to business law, contracts, Chapter 11, and insolvency. Oneof his current passions is exploring and advocating the limitations ofbankruptcy law as a device to affect non-debtor rights and duties that couldnot be affected under otherwise applicable non-bankruptcy law. He conductstransactional training seminars and clinics for law students, lawyers, and lawfirms across the country.
ProfessorKuney lives in the Ft. Sanders neighborhood of Knoxvillewith his wife, Donna C. Looper, also an attorney and an Adjunct Professor. His interests includearchitecture, entrepreneurship, history, real estate development, land use,carpentry, hiking, and Lady Vols basketball.