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Questions & Answers Series 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Click on a topic for information about the authors who prepared the Q&A title: BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS: Branson DOUGLAS M. BRANSON has occupied the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh since 1996. Prior to 1996, he was a Professor of Law at the Seattle University (1973 to 1996). He also regularly visits the University of Alabama School of Law, where he has twice held the Charles Tweedy Professorship. He also holds the rank of Permanent Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Australia) where each year he teaches (with Professor J. Farrar) the corporate governance class to Master of Law students. He has been a visiting professor at Arizona State University, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, and Washington University (St. Louis), among others. He has taught the basic course in business organization law for 30 years. Professor Branson has also taught in New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Spain, France, and England. He has been a Fulbright-sponsored lecturer at University of Ghent (Belgium) and a U.S. State Department-sponsored lecturer at several universities in the Ukraine. He has been a USAID-sponsored consultant to the Republic of Indonesia on matters of corporate law, corporate governance, and capital markets law. He has worked on similar projects for Macedonia and Afghanistan, endeavoring to aid those countries in modernization their economic laws. He is the author of over 60 law review articles and several books. His books include the leading treatise Corporate Governance (1993) (with annual supplements); Problems in Corporate Governance (1997); and Understanding Corporate Law (1999) (with Arthur Pinto). CIVIL PROCEDURE: Dorsaneo & Thornburg WILLIAM V. DORSANEO III is Professor of Law and Chief Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University. Professor Dorsaneo was a litigation specialist in Dallas after graduation from law school. He is the principal author of the twenty-six volume Texas Litigation Guide and the co-author of the five-volume Texas Civil Trial Guide, as well as three casebooks entitled Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure, Texas Pre-Trial Litigation, and Texas Trial & Appellate Practice, and several other volumes on Texas litigation. He has written numerous articles on civil procedure. He is Board certified by the State Bar of Texas in civil appellate law and is an active member of the Advisory Committee to the Texas Supreme Court, a member of the American Law Institute, and Chairman of the Texas Supreme Court's Task Force for Revision of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. ELIZABETH G. THORNBURG is Professor of Law at Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University. After clerking for a federal judge, Professor Thornburg was a commercial litigator before she began teaching at SMU. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, and the State Bar of Texas. She has served on the Executive Committee and the Complex Litigation Committee of the Civil Procedure section of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as on Texas Supreme Court task forces on procedure issues. Professor Thornburg specializes in the areas of civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, conflict of laws, and comparative civil procedure. Her publications include numerous articles on civil procedure issues, as well as co-authorship of Texas Pre-Trial Litigation, and Texas Trial & Appellate Practice. Together, Professors Dorsaneo and Thornburg have taught procedure for more than forty years. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: McGreal & Eads PAUL E. McGREAL is the Harry & Helen Hutchens Research Professor and Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas, where he teaches (among other things) the Constitutional Law survey course as well as a seminar on federalism. He has written over a dozen law review articles on issues in constitutional law, and has spoken on these issues in various fora. Prior to joining the South Texas faculty in 1996, Professor McGreal practiced commercial litigation with the law firm Baker & Botts in their Dallas office. LINDA S. EADS teaches at the Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas. She teaches and writes in the areas of evidence, legal ethics, constitutional law, and women and the law. From January 1999 to August 2000, Professor Eads served as Deputy Attorney General for Litigation for the State of Texas. In that position, she directed the State's civil litigation. Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Eads served as a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, investigating and prosecuting tax evaders, tax protestors, and drug dealers throughout the United States. KEITH A. ROWLEY is an Associate Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, having previously taught at the Emory University School of Law and Mississippi College School of Law. A former lecturer in economics and public policy at Baylor University, Professor Rowley graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as Executive Editor of the Texas Law Review and interned with then-Justice Lloyd Doggett of the Texas Supreme Court. Following law school, Professor Rowley clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced commercial litigation in Houston for five years before accepting his first law teaching position. Professor Rowley is the author of Volume 10 of the Revised Edition of Corbin on Contracts - forthcoming from LexisNexis - covering breach of contract and anticipatory repudiation. He has also published more than twenty-five other books and articles on a variety of legal, economic, and public policy topics. His current teaching and research focuses on contract law, commercial law, and securities regulation. In addition to contributing this book to the Questions & Answers series, Professor Rowley also serves as an editorial consultant for the series, working with Professor Tim Zinnecker (South Texas College of Law) and LexisNexis Acquisitions Editor Heather Dean to identify subjects for the series, recruit authors, and review manuscripts prior to their publication. PAUL MARCUS is the Haynes Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. He has written casebooks and treatises in both criminal law and criminal procedure, and has lectured on these topics throughout the United States and in many foreign nations as well. He is the former Law Dean at the University of Arizona, and Interim Law Dean at William and Mary. EMILY MARCUS LEVINE graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1998 and clerked for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 1999. She is currently an attorney with the Office of the General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where she specializes in legal issues relating to organ and bone marrow transplantation and vaccine injury compensation. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Katz & Cohen LEWIS R. KATZ is the John C. Hutchins Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has taught criminal law and procedure since 1966. Professor Katz is the author of numerous law review articles, treatises for practicing lawyers and judges in New York and Ohio, and Know Your Rights, a practical guide for ordinary citizens. Professor Katz participated in two landmark cases: he co-authored an amicus curiae brief in
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), which authorized and set limits on police stops and frisks, and he served as trial counsel for the plaintiffs in
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974), which established the right of pregnant women to continue teaching in public schools. DAVID P. LEONARD is Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty in 1991, Professor Leonard was Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. He has taught Evidence for more than twenty years. Professor Leonard is author of numerous law review articles as well as Selected Rules of Limited Admissibility, a volume of The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence. Along with Roger C. Park and Steven H. Goldberg, he is co-author of the hornbook Evidence Law: A Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials. MARK STRASSER has a B.A. from Harvard College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is the Trustees Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches Family Law, Constitutional Law, and Sexual Diversity and the Law. He has written extensively in Family Law, Constitutional Law, Tort, and Law and Sexual Minorities. DAVID L. CAMERON is the Associate Director of the Tax Program and Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law. Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, he was Professor of Law at Willamette University. He began teaching in 1990 and has taught Federal Income Taxation, Business Entities Taxation, International Taxation, and State and Local Taxation. Professor Cameron is the author of several tax articles, a co-author, with Philip Postlewaite and Thomas Kittle-Kamp, of a treatise titled Federal Income Taxation of Intellectual Properties and Intangible Assets, and co-author, with Deborah Stark, James Durham, and Thomas White, of a casebook on commercial real estate development titled Commercial Real Estate Transactions: A Project and Skills Oriented Approach. PAYMENT SYSTEMS: Maggs & Zinnecker GREGORY E. MAGGS is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches Contracts, Commercial Paper-Payment Systems, and Constitutional Law. He previously taught at the University of Texas School of Law. Professor Maggs is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Hon. Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. He has written numerous law review articles on the Uniform Commercial Code. For many years, he also has prepared bar examination questions in the area of commercial law for various jurisdictions. From time to time, Professor Maggs posts useful study aids for law students on the George Washington University Law School's website (www.law.gwu.edu/facweb/gmaggs). He thanks his research assistants, Kirk Shryoc Jr. and Chad Nydegger, for their help. He is also grateful to his co-author whose diligence is unsurpassed. TIMOTHY R. ZINNECKER is a professor of law at South Texas College of Law, where he teaches Secured Transactions, Payment Systems, and Consumer Bankruptcy. Professor Zinnecker graduated with honors from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, where he served as lead note and comment editor of the law review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Frank X. Gordon, chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and the Hon. Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He practiced commercial law in Dallas and Houston for five years before joining the faculty at South Texas College of Law in 1994. He has been a visiting professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law and is a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law during fall 2003. His scholarship has appeared in Tennessee Law Review, Missouri Law Review, Richmond Law Review, Kansas Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, and The Business Lawyer. He also is the author of The Default Provisions of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (ABA 1999), the co-author of Payment Systems, Banking and Documentary Transactions (Carolina Academic Press 2003), and the co-author of Questions and Answers: Secured Transactions (LexisNexis 2003). PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Longan PATRICK EMERY LONGAN holds the William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism in the Practice of Law at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law and is the Director of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism (www.law.mercer.edu/mclep). Professor Longan is a 1983 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, which he attended after obtaining his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his Master's degree in economics from the University of Sussex. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Longan clerked for Bernard M. Decker, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, practiced law for seven years, and became a full-time law teacher in 1991. He lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife, Gretchen, and their two sons, Mitch and Emery. JOHN COPELAND NAGLE is a Professor at the Notre Dame Law School, where he teaches property, legislation, and a variety of environmental law courses. He is the co-author of The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management, the first book designed for courses studying how the law addresses biodiversity. He is also co-authoring a forthcoming property law casebook and a book comparing environmental pollution, cultural pollution, and other kinds of "pollution." He has lectured on property, legislation, and environmental issues at numerous forums in the United States, Canada, China, and Hungary. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing during 2002, where he taught property law and environmental law. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Professor Nagle was an associate professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law from 1994 through 1998. He also worked in the United States Department of Justice, first as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel where he advised other executive branch agencies on a variety of constitutional and statutory issues, and later as a trial attorney conducting environmental litigation. Professor Nagle served as a law clerk to Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and he was a scientific assistant in the Energy and Environmental Systems Division of Argonne National Laboratory. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Michigan Law School. SECURED TRANSACTIONS: Markell & Zinnecker BRUCE A. MARKELL is the Doris S. and Theodore B. Lee Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches Contracts, Secured Transactions, Sales, Payment Systems, Securitization, and Bankruptcy. He is also Of Counsel to the Los Angeles law firm of Stutman, Treister & Glatt. Professor Markell is the author of numerous articles on bankruptcy and commercial law. He is a member of the editorial board of Collier on Bankruptcy, and contributes several chapters to that publication. He recently published a Contracts casebook, Making and Doing Deals: Contracts in Context, with David Epstein and Lawrence Ponoroff, and will soon publish, with John Dolan and Lawrence Ponoroff, a new casebook involving secured transactions, Core Commercial Law Principles: Past, Present, and Future. He is also the author of the forthcoming Questions & Answers: Bankruptcy (LexisNexis 2004). Professor Markell is a member of the American Law Institute, a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a charter member of the International Insolvency Institute. He has been a consultant to the United Nations on secured transactions issues, and to the Republic of Indonesia on reform of its secured transactions laws. TIMOTHY R. ZINNECKER is a professor at South Texas College of Law, where he teaches Secured Transactions, Payment Systems, and Consumer Bankruptcy. Professor Zinnecker graduated with honors from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, in 1986, where he served as lead note and comment editor of the law review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. He then served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Frank X. Gordon, chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and the Hon. Edith H. Jones, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Zinnecker practiced commercial law in Dallas and Houston for five years before joining the faculty at South Texas College of Law in 1994. He has been a visiting professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law and is a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law during fall 2003. His scholarship has appeared in Tennessee Law Review, Missouri Law Review, Richmond Law Review, Kansas Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, and The Business Lawyer. He also is the author of The Default Provisions of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (ABA 1999), the co-author of Payment Systems, Banking and Documentary Transactions (Carolina Academic Press 2003), and the co-author of Questions and Answers: Payment Systems (LexisNexis 2003). ANITA BERNSTEIN, Sam Nunn Professor of Law at Emory University, has also taught at Chicago-Kent, Cornell, Fordham, Iowa, Michigan, and Seton Hall law schools. She has taught Torts for fifteen years and recently served as chair of the Torts & Compensation Systems section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has published extensively on the relation between torts and other subjects, including feminist theory, comparative law, and the sociology of products liability. DAVID P. LEONARD is Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty in 1991, he was Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. He has taught Torts for more than twenty years and is the author of numerous law review articles and several books, including another book in this series, Questions & Answers: Evidence. WILLS, TRUSTS AND ESTATES: Featherston THOMAS M. FEATHERSTON, JR. is the Mills Cox Professor of Law at Baylor Law School in Waco, Texas. He earned his J.D. with highest honors from Baylor Law School in 1972. After graduation, he entered private practice in Houston from 1972 through 1982. He is Board Certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (originally certified in 1979). Professor Featherston joined the Baylor Law School faculty in 1982, and in 1990, he was appointed to the Mills Cox Chair.
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