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PROFESSOR JULIET M. MORINGIELLO TO SERVE AS SPRING
2010 ABI RESIDENT SCHOLAR
January 11, 2010, Alexandria, Va. — Prof.
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Moringiello, Professor of Law at Widener University School of
Law, will serve as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the
Spring 2010 Semester. An editorial board member of ABI’s
Law Review, Prof. Moringiello
specializes in a number of areas of law including bankruptcy,
commercial law and electronic commerce. Prof. Moringiello will serve in
ABI's Alexandria, Va., office, assisting ABI with its educational
programming and in its role as the authoritative source of bankruptcy
information for Congress, the media and the public.
Prof. Moringiello teaches a dynamic range of subjects at Widener Law
School, including courses on bankruptcy, property, secured transactions,
payment systems and electronic commerce and sales. For her work in the
areas of bankruptcy, commercial law and electronic commerce, Prof.
Moringiello was honored by the Widener Law School in 2006 with the
Douglas E. Ray Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award. She has also
taught as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia, Loyola
University Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of
Maryland, the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State
University and the Universite de Paris X in Nanterre, France.
Prof. Moringiello is an active member of the American Bar
Association’s (ABA) Business Law Section and the Association of
American Law Schools (AALS). She is a former member of the ABA’s
editorial boards of The Business
Lawyer and Business Law Today and is editor of The
Business Lawyer's annual survey of cyberspace law. She is also a
former co-chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the ABA
Business Law Section. During the 2003-04 academic year, Prof.
Moringiello was chair of the AALS Section of Commercial and Related
Consumer Law.
Active in a number of law reform activities, Prof. Moringiello is an
elected member of the American Law Institute and is chair of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association's Uniform Commercial Code Committee. In
2007, the Pennsylvania Bar Association honored her with a Special
Achievement Award for her work in the Uniform Commercial Code enactment
process.
Prof. Moringiello received her bachelor’s degree from the
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1984, her J.D. from
Fordham University School of Law in 1987 and her LL.M. from Temple
University School of Law in 1993. She is admitted to practice law in New
York and Pennsylvania.
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dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency.
ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased
analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABI membership includes more than
12,400 attorneys, accountants, bankers, judges, professors, lenders,
turnaround specialists and other bankruptcy professionals, providing a
forum for the exchange of ideas and information. For additional
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