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Peter Hay

L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law

conflict of laws, european community law, comparative law, contracts and sales, jurisprudence

Peter  Hay is one of the most distinguished comparative law scholars in the country, was Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law and dean at the University of Illinois before coming to Emory in 1991.

Since 1975 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany. In 1989 Dean Hay received the research prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He was elected a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the American Law Institute in 1984, and a member of the American Academy of Foreign Law in 1986.

Dean Hay's research has focused on the fields of conflict of laws, European Community law, comparative law, contracts and sales, and jurisprudence. From 1994 to 2000 he held, concurrently with his Emory appointment, the chair for Civil Law, Foreign and International Private Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Dresden, Germany, where he served as dean of its law faculty from 1997 to 2000.

L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law. B.A., J.D., University of Michigan, 1958.

  

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