Written by:
 Linda J. Rusch
Frederick N. and Barbara T. Curley Professor of Commercial Law
Gonzaga University
School of Law
Stephen L. Sepinuck
Professor of Law
Gonzaga University
School of Law
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Education:
- A.B., Brown University, 1981
- J.D. cum laude, Boston University, 1984
- LL.M. in Taxation, New York University, 1987
Bio:
Professor Sepinuck has an A.B. in history from Brown University, a J.D. cum laude from Boston University, and an LL.M in Taxation from New York University. In the 1980s, he specialized in creditor's bankruptcy rights and related commercial issues while practicing law in Florida and in the federal tax aspects of public and private financings while practicing in California. In 1989, he began teaching at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Two years later, he joined the faculty of Gonzaga University School of Law, where he has teaches courses on Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Sales, Contracts, Appellate Advocacy, and Constitutional Law. Professor Sepinuck has authored articles on a variety of subjects, written two books, and has won awards for both his teaching and his scholarship. He served as an advisor to the Drafting Committee that revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, chaired its Task Force on Deposit Accounts, annually edits the survey of commercial law that appears in The Business Lawyer, and serves as Vice Chair of the ABA's UCC Committee. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and co-director of the Institute for Law School Teaching. He is a former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, a current member of the Florida, Massachusetts, California, and the District of Columbia bars, and recently became Scholar in Residence at the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.
Recent Publications:
- The Conscience of the Court: Selected Opinions of Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on Freedom and Equality (Southern Ill. Univ. Press 1999) (co-authored)
- Teaching Statutory Construction Through Reverse Problems and "Why" Problems, The Law Teacher 4 (Fall 2005)
- Rethinking "Unfair Discrimination" in Chapter 13, 74 Am. Bankr. L.J. 330 (2000)
- "High Crimes & Misdemeanors": Defining the Constitutional Limits on Presidential Impeachment, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1517 (1999) (co-authored)
- Report of the Deposit Accounts Task Force to the Article 9 Drafting Committee (September 4, 1997), reprinted by the Conference on Consumer Finance Law in 54 Quarterly Report 203 (2000)
- A Defense of Extending Article 9 to Cover Security Interests in Deposit Accounts as Original Collateral, 1995 Com. L. Ann. 477 (1995)
- Report of the Subcommittee on Deposit Accounts, Article 9 Study Project (June 5, 1992)
- Classifying Credit Card Receivables under the U.C.C.: Playing with Instruments?, 32 ARIZ. L. REV. 789 (1990), reprinted in, S. Nickles, J. Matheson & E. Adams, Modern Commercial Paper: the New Law of Negotiable Instruments (And Related Commercial Paper) (1993)
- The Problems with Setoff: A Proposed Legislative Solution, 30 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 51 (1988)
- Hospital Residents and Interns: Inconsistent Treatment Under Federal Law, 29 St. Louis U.L.J. 665 (1985), reprinted in, Hospital Liability Law and Practice (5th ed. 1987)
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