CURTIS R. REITZ
University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: Fax: Email: (215) 898-7464 (215) 573-2025 creitz@law.upenn.edu
EMPLOYMENT 19851987-2000 1973-86 1971-73 19631960-63 1957-60 1956-57 EDUCATION B.A,, University of Pennsylvania, 1951 (Phi Beta Kappa) LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1956 (summa cum laude) Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Center on Professionalism, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Director 1994-1997) Counselor to the President, University of Pennsylvania Provost and Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Law Clerk, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Supreme Court of the United States
COURSES TAUGHT Agency Civil Procedure Commercial Credit Construction Contracts Consumer Transactions Contracts Creditors' Rights PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Editor-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1955-56) Reporter, ABA Criminal Justice Standards Project (subjects: sentencing, criminal appeals, appellate review of sentencing, post-conviction remedies) (1965-95) (Reporter for 3d edition of chapter on Sentencing and Appellate Review of Sentences 1990-95) Board of Overseers, Widener University School of Law (formerly Delaware Law School), Wilmington, DE (1975-2000) Commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (1975) (Member Executive Committee 1991-93, 1995-1997) Chair, International Legal Developments Committee (2000) Criminal Law Payment Systems Post-Conviction Remedies Professional Responsibility International Regulation of Trade and Investment Sales and International Sales
Chair, Drafting Committee for Model Insanity Defense and Post-Trial Disposition Act (1984) Chair, Drafting Committee for Revised UCC Article 8 (1993-95) Member, Drafting Committee for Revised UCC Article 2 (1994-1999) Member, Drafting Committee for Revised UCC Article 1 (1997- 2001) Frances Lewis Scholar-in-Residence, Washington & Lee Law School, Lexington, VA (Spring 1982) Professor in Residence, Exxon Company USA, Houston, TX (Summer 1982) ABA National Institute, Joint Venturing Abroad - A Case Study (March 1983, January 1989)
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Special Master, Bucks County (PA) Court of Common Pleas, Sullivan v. County of Bucks (1986-1989) Member, Governor's (PA) Commission on Judicial Reform (1987-88); Co-Chairman, Subcommittee on Judicial Administration and Utilization Member, American Law Institute Consultative Group for Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers (1987-1999) Panel Member, Center for Public Resources (1990Panel Member, National Arbitration Forum (2000) )
Member, Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code (1992- ) (ALI representative) Member, Advisers for Revision of Sentencing Provisions of the ALI Model Penal Code (2001) Member, Study Group on Securities, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome (2002) BAR MEMBERSHIPS Supreme Court of the United States United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ASSOCIATIONS Order of the Coif (1956) American Law Institute (1979- ) (Life Member 2002) American Judicature Society (1989)
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CIVIC ACTIVITIES Trustee, International House of Philadelphia, PA (1971-80, 1981-90, 1991-1998) Trustee (and Secretary), International House Center (1998)
Member, Board of Managers, The Glen Mills Schools, Glen Mills, PA (institution for juvenile delinquents) (1971- ) Committee of Seventy (1982-1998) (Chairman 1985-86) Trustee, University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (1971-79) (Chairman 1977-79) Trustee, Moore School of Electrical Engineering (1971-78) Member, Board of Zoning Appeals, Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, PA (1970-75) Member, Editorial Board, University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (1986-1989)
July 2002
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