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Linda J. Rusch
Frederick N. and Barbara T. Curley
Professor of Commercial Law
Gonzaga University School of Law
721 N. Cincinnati
Spokane, WA 99220-3528

509-323-3769
Lrusch@lawschool.gonzaga.edu



Education:

  • B.A., Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD
  • J.D., University of Iowa School of Law
Bio:

Linda J. Rusch has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Frederick N. and Barbara T. Curley Professor in Commercial Law at Gonzaga University School of Law. She joined the faculty at the start of the 2005-2006 academic year.

Linda J. Rusch was a professor of law teaching in the area of commercial law at Hamline University School of Law. Prof. Rusch graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law with highest distinction and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Hamline faculty in 1992, she practiced commercial law and bankruptcy as an associate with the Minneapolis firm of Faegre & Benson, and clerked for the Honorable Milton I. Shadur, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois.

Over the course of several years, Prof. Rusch has been involved in the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code. From 1996-99, she served as the Associate Reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute Drafting Committee to Revise Article 2 of the UCC. From 2000 to 2003, she served as a co-reporter for and member of the NCCUSL-ALI Drafting Committee to revise UCC Article 7. She currently serves as a member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the UCC.

Prof. Rusch is actively involved in many national and local bar groups. From 1999 to 2003 she served as the chair of the committee on the UCC for the ABA Business Law Section, and is currently serving as a co-chair for its Working Group on Transferrable Electronic Assets and is an elected member of the ABA Business Law Section Council. She also serves as an elected member of the Executive Council for the Minnesota State Bar Association Business Law Section. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Bankruptcy, the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, the American Bar Association Business Law Section, the Minnesota Bar Association Business Law and Bankruptcy Sections.

She has published numerous articles and books on the Uniform Commercial Code and bankruptcy, and is a frequent lecturer on those topics.

Recent Books and Chapters:

  • COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: SALES, LEASES AND LICENSES (2D EDITION) (with Speidel)(Thomson/West 2004) (with Teacher’s Manual)
  • ABCS OF THE UCC: ARTICLE 7 (REVISED) DOCUMENTS OF TITLE (ABA Business Law Section,2004)
  • THE ABCS OF THE UCC ARTICLE 2 (REVISED): SALES, coauthored with Henry D. Gabriel (ABA Business Law Section, 2004)
  • PAYMENT SYSTEMS: PROBLEMS, MATERIALS AND CASES (2nd Edition 2003) (West Group) (with teacher’s manual)
  • COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS: SALES, LEASES AND LICENSES (with Richard Speidel) with Teacher’s Manual (West Group 2001)
  • PAYMENT SYSTEMS: PROBLEMS, MATERIALS AND CASES and Teacher’s Manual (West Group 2000)
  • 1997 Supplement to Casebook: SALES UNDER THE UCC AND CISG (Anderson Publishing 1993) with Professor Louis F. Del Duca, Professor Egon Guttman, Professor Fred Miller and Professor Peter Winship
  • THE ABCS OF THE UCC ARTICLE 2: SALES, coauthored with Henry D. Gabriel (ABA Business Law Section 1997)
  • Chapter VI: Single Asset Cases and Chapter 11: The Classification Quandary in SINGLE ASSET REAL ESTATE BANKRUPTCIES (ABA Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law 1997)

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