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Amelia
Boss
Trustee
Professor of Law
Email: aboss@drexel.edu
Phone: 215-571-4806
Office: Earle Mack School of Law, Room 276
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Education
J.D., summa cum laude, Rutgers-Camden School of Law
B.A., cum laude with honors, Bryn Mawr College
Amy Boss
is an internationally recognized expert on legal issues in
electronic commerce, a leading scholar on codifying international
commercial law through treaty, a member of the Council of the
American Law Institute and the first professor and second woman
to chair the Business
Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Professor
Boss came to Drexel from the Temple University Beasley School
of Law, where she was a professor and director of the
Institute for International Law and Public Policy. Before teaching
at Temple, she was a faculty member at Rutgers-Camden School
of Law and a visiting professor at University of Miami School
of Law. She has taught in Japan, China, New Zealand, Ireland,
Greece and Italy, and lectured throughout the world.
A member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial
Code, Professor Boss currently serves as an advisor and as the
U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce.
She represented the U.S. in the development of the UNCITRAL Model
Law on Electronic Commerce and the Model Law on Electronic Signatures.
She has also worked with the U.N. Commission on Trade and Development
and the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Council on issues
involving electronic commerce. In 1998, The National Law Journal ranked Professor Boss as one of the 50 most influential women
attorneys in the U.S.
Professor Boss has written scores of books, articles and reports
on the uniform commercial code, electronic data transfer, leasing
transactions and other topics, appearing in publications including
the Tulane Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Journal
of Bankruptcy Law and Practice and International Lawyer.
After receiving
her J.D. from Rutgers-Camden School of Law, where she served
on
the Law Review and participated in Jessup
International Moot Court, Professor Boss clerked for the Honorable
Milton B. Conford of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She later
entered private practice as an associate with Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz
in Philadelphia and with McCarter & English
in Cherry Hill, N.J.
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