William J. Woodward, Jr.
Professor of Law
Professor Woodward left private practice as a trial lawyer to teach contract law, commercial law, and bankruptcy in 1980. Over that period his teaching and scholarship have extended beyond those areas into torts, remedies, international law, alternative dispute resolution, and conflict of laws. Some of his recent written work studies the contract law and the conflict of laws principles that are triggered when parties agree that their contract will be governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, or agree to resolve their disputes in a particular forum. His recent scholarship has also focused on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, on comparative bankruptcy law, and on the use of mediation in the bankruptcy context.
Professor Woodward was the American Bar Association's Business Law Section's representative to the Drafting Committee to revise Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and he is an active member of the American Law Institute on several of its projects. He has also long been engaged in efforts to improve pro bono delivery of legal services to the public. He is Vice Chair of the ABA Business Law Section's Pro Bono Committee, has been a board member of the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia since 1993, and helped to create and is on the steering committee for Philadelphia LawWorks, the region's premier provider of pro bono business law services. He also serves as a pro bono lawyer and Judge Pro Tem in the Philadelphia Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program, and as a mediator in the Philadelphia and Delaware bankruptcy courts.
Professor Woodward is also past Chair of the Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law of the Association of American Law Schools, is a past President of the Temple University Faculty Senate, past Chair of the Temple University Senate Personnel Committee, and has been a consultant to and member of the Committee on Governance of the American Association of University Professors. He has written, taught, and lectured broadly on commercial law, bankruptcy, intellectual property, torts, alternative dispute resolution, and legal education topics.
Education
J.D., Rutgers-Camden School of Law
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Areas
Contract Law, Commercial Law, Consumer Law, and Bankruptcy
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