Professor Harris came to Chicago-Kent from the University of Illinois College of
Law, where he was a professor from 1984-1996. He specializes in commercial and bankruptcy
law and has published widely in scholarly journals, including the Cornell Law Review,
Minnesota Law Review, Virginia Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. He
also is co-author of Cases, Problems, and Materials on Security Interests in Personal
Property. An active participant in law reform, Professor Harris serves on the United
States delegation to the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
(UNIDROIT) and recently served as a reporter to the Drafting Committee to revise Uniform
Commercial Code Article 9.
Professor Harris earned his bachelor’s degree and law degree from the University of
Chicago. He entered full-time teaching in 1978, after a judicial clerkship and several
years of practicing law in Chicago. He has taught on the faculty of Wayne State
University Law School and as a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of
Chicago, the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. In 1990-91, he was a
scholar in residence at Sidley & Austin.
Professor Harris is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American
College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Bankruptcy Law
Contracts
Secured Transactions
Commercial Law
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