Amy Boss is an internationally recognized expert on legal issues in electronic commerce, a leading scholar on codifying international commercial law through treaty, a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and the first professor and second woman to chair the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Professor Boss came to Drexel from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was a professor and director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy. Before teaching at Temple, she was a faculty member at Rutgers-Camden School of Law and a visiting professor at University of Miami School of Law. She has taught in Japan, China, New Zealand, Ireland, Greece and Italy, and lectured throughout the world. A member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, Professor Boss currently serves as an advisor and as the U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce. She represented the U.S. in the development of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce and the Model Law on Electronic Signatures. She has also worked with the U.N. Commission on Trade and Development and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Council on issues involving electronic commerce. In 1998, The National Law Journal ranked Professor Boss as one of the 50 most influential women attorneys in the U.S. Professor Boss has written scores of books, articles and reports on the uniform commercial code, electronic data transfer, leasing transactions and other topics, appearing in publications including the Tulane Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice and International Lawyer. After receiving her J.D. from Rutgers-Camden School of Law, where she served on the Law Review and participated in Jessup International Moot Court, Professor Boss clerked for the Honorable Milton B. Conford of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She later entered private practice as an associate with Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia and with McCarter & English in Cherry Hill, N.J.
Articles
The Future of the Uniform Commercial Code Process in an Increasingly International World, Ohio State Law Journal (2007)
The domestic success of the Uniform Commercial Code as a unifying force within the United...