Dean, Professor
William P. Johnson was appointed dean of SLU LAW in January 2017. He previously served as Director for the Center for International and Comparative Law and as the Program Director for the SLU LAW Summer Law Program in Madrid. He joined the SLU LAW faculty in 2012 after holding an appointment on the law faculty of the University of North Dakota. He has also been a visiting professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, the Université Paris-Dauphine in Paris, France, and Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and has been a guest lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to becoming a law professor, Johnson practiced corporate and commercial law for six years in the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner LLP. He focused his practice on complex commercial arrangements, cross-border business transactions, and international product distribution. Prior to joining Foley & Lardner, Johnson served as a judicial law clerk to Justice Russell A. Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Professor Johnson has remained engaged with the law practice community through active involvement in the American Bar Association (ABA) and has held several leadership positions in the ABA’s Section of International Law. He served for two years as a member of the Section Council as the chair of the Africa/Eurasia Division. He currently serves as co-chair or vice-chair of three Section committees: the International Commercial Transactions, Franchising and Distribution Committee, the International Legal Education and Specialist Certification Committee, and the International Ethics Committee.
Professor Johnson’s scholarship is generally focused on commercial law and international business law. In particular, Johnson identifies, researches and writes about the distinctive challenges and issues that arise due to international aspects of cross-border business relationships. He has written extensively about the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and has published his work on the CISG in the United States, Turkey, and Brazil.
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About William P. Johnson, J.D.
William P. Johnson was appointed dean of SLU LAW in January 2017. He previously served as Director for the Center for International and Comparative Law and as the Program Director for the SLU LAW Summer Law Program in Madrid. He joined the SLU LAW faculty in 2012 after holding an appointment on the law faculty of the University of North Dakota. He has also been a visiting professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, the Université Paris-Dauphine in Paris, France, and Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and has been a guest lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. Prior to becoming a law professor, Johnson practiced corporate and commercial law for six years in the Milwaukee office of Foley & Lardner LLP. He focused his practice on complex commercial arrangements, cross-border business transactions, and international product distribution. Prior to joining Foley & Lardner, Johnson served as a judicial law clerk to Justice Russell A. Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Professor Johnson has remained engaged with the law practice community through active involvement in the American Bar Association (ABA) and has held several leadership positions in the ABA’s Section of International Law. He served for two years as a member of the Section Council as the chair of the Africa/Eurasia Division. He currently serves as co-chair or vice-chair of three Section committees: the International Commercial Transactions, Franchising and Distribution Committee, the International Legal Education and Specialist Certification Committee, and the International Ethics Committee.
Professor Johnson’s scholarship is generally focused on commercial law and international business law. In particular, Johnson identifies, researches and writes about the distinctive challenges and issues that arise due to international aspects of cross-border business relationships. He has written extensively about the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and has published his work on the CISG in the United States, Turkey, and Brazil.
| Present | Dean, Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law ‐ Dean's Office | |
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| 2012 - 2016 | Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law ‐ Center for International and Comparative Law | |
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