Linda Rusch to Be Honored at KCON 9

At the annual International Conference on Contracts coming up in February in Miami, the assembled contracts profs will be be honoring Linda Rusch.  

LindaJ. Rusch is a retired  professor of lawas of August 2012.  She was the inauguralholder of the Frederick N. and Barbara T. Curley Professor in Commercial Law at the Gonzaga University School fo Law from2005-2010.   She was also a co-directorof the Law School’s Commercial Law Center. She graduated from theUniversity of Iowa College of Law with highest distinction and was elected tothe Order of the Coif.

Priorto joining Gonzaga, she was a professor of law teaching in the area ofcommercial law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.Prior to joining the Hamline faculty in 1992, she practiced commercial law andbankruptcy as an associate with the Minneapolis firm of Faegre & Benson,and clerked for the Honorable Milton I. Shadur, United States District Court, NorthernDistrict of Illinois.

Overthe course of several years, Professor Rusch has been involved in the revision ofthe Uniform Commercial Code. From 1996-99, she served as the Associate Reporterfor the Uniform Law Commission and the American Law Institute DraftingCommittee to Revise Article 2 of the UCC. From 2000 to 2003, she served as aco-reporter for and member of the ULC-ALI Drafting Committee to revise UCCArticle 7.  She also was the Reporter forthe ULC Study Committee on Payment Issues from 2008 to 2011.  She currently serves as a member of thePermanent Editorial Board of the UCC, and is on the Executive Committee for thePEB,

Professor Rusch is actively involved in many national and local bar groups. She hasfilled many leadership roles in the American Bar Association Business LawSection, including as a Chair of the Section from 2011-12, as a chair of theCommittee on the UCC from 1999-2003.  Inaddition, Prof. Rusch is a past President of the American College of CommercialFinance Lawyers. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and theAmerican College of Bankruptcy. As a member of the American Law Institute, she hasparticipated in the Members Consultative Groups on the development of theRestatement of Restitution, the Principles of Software Contracting, and theRestatement of Torts (Third): Economic Losses. 

Prof.Rusch has published numerous articles and books on the Uniform Commercial Codeand bankruptcy, and is a frequent lecturer on those topics. 

We are looking forward to joining our colleagues in honoring Linda Rusch.

[JT]