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Margaret L. Moses
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, and Director of International Law and Practice Program


Biography

Professor Moses has been on the faculty of Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 1998. She is currently Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development, and Director of International Programs. Professor Moses' areas of interest and research include international commercial arbitration, international business transactions, letters of credit, international trade finance, and the jury trial right. Her book, The Principles and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.  Before joining the Loyola faculty, she practiced law in New York, New Jersey, Paris and Milan. She has worked with clients doing business in many parts of the globe, including in Europe, North Africa, and China.  She has participated as an advocate or an arbitrator in arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC and the American Arbitration Association. Professor Moses currently directs  the Vis Moot Arbitration Program at Loyola, sending law students to compete each year at the Vis Moot competitions in Vienna and Hong Kong.
 

Education
B.A., magna cum laude, Agnes Scott
M.A., Indiana
M.A.T., Harvard
Ph.D., Indiana
J.D., Columbia

 

 Professor Margaret Moses

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1316
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 915-6430
Fax: (312) 915-7201
Email: mmoses1@luc.edu

 

Fall 2009 Teaching Schedule

Courses Taught

International Commercial Arbitration and CISG
International Business Transactions
European Union Law
Contracts

  

Publications

Professor Margaret Moses' SSRN Website

 

Books 

The Principles and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration, Cambridge University Press (2008)

 

Articles

Drafting the Arbitration Clause: Addressing the Issues, in International Arbitration and Mediation - from the Professional's Perspective (Robert Carrow & Anita Alibekova, eds.,Yorkhill Law Publishing 2007)

Statutory Misconstruction: How the Supreme Court Created a Federal Arbitration Law Never Enacted by Congress, 34 Florida State University Law Review 99, Fall 2006

Letters of Credit and the Insolvent Applicant: A Recipe for Bad Faith Dishonor, 57 Ala. L. Rev. 31 (2005)

Privatized "Justice", 36 Loy.U.Chi. L.J. 535 (2005) [article]

Can Parties Tell Courts What to Do? Expanded Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards, 52 Kans. L.Rev. 429 (2004)

The Irony of International Letters of Credit: They Aren't Secure, but They (Usually) Work, 120 Banking L. J. 479 (2003)

Party Agreements to Expand Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards, to be published, Journal of International Arbitration (Summer, 2003)

The New Definition of Good Faith in Revised Article 1, 35 UCC Law Journal 47 (2002)

The Jury Trial Right in the UCC: On a Slippery Slope, 54 SMU Law Review 561 (2001)

What the Jury Must Hear : The Supreme Court's Evolving Seventh Amendment Jurisprudence, 68 Geo. Wash L. Rev. 183 (2000)

The Uniform Commercial Code Meets the Seventh Amendment: The Demise of Jury Trials Under Article 5, 72 Ind. L.J. 681 (1997)

The Impact of Revised Article 5 on Small and Mid-Sized Exporters, 29 UCC L.J. 393 (1997)

 

Recent Presentations

"The Arbitration Fairness Act," SEALS Conference, Palm Beach Florida, August 2008

"Drafting the International Arbitration Agreement," University of Nanterre, Paris, France, June 2008

"Principles and Practice of International Arbitration," Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association, April 2008

Conference Panel Moderator, "Award Enforcement under NAFTA," International Division of the American Arbitration Association, April 25, 2008

Presented paper on "The Arbitration Clause," at Arbitration Day Conference at the University of Bologna, March 2007

Presented paper on "Lowering Transaction Costs in Commercial Letters of Credit," at International Conference on Contracts, Houston, February 2007

"The Arbitration Agreement - Addressing the Issues," Center for International Legal Issues, Salzburg Austria, June 16, 2006

"Changes in Revised Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code," Chicago Bar Association, Committee on Commercial and Financial Transactions, March 2003

"Expanded Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards," CIDRA (Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association), Chicago, November 2002

"Vacatur of Arbitral Awards," Conference on International Commercial Arbitration, Salzburg, Austria, June 2002

"The New Definition of Good Faith in Article 1," Business Section, American Bar Association, Boston, April 2002

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