Professor Larry Garvin recently was unanimously elected to be a Life Member of the Uniform Law Commission, also known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
To be eligible for this honor, a commissioner must have served for at least twenty years. Garvin was first appointed to the State Board on Uniform State Laws by Governor Bob Taft in 2005. In his time on the Uniform Law Commission, Garvin has served on the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Joint ALI/ULC Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies, and on a wide range of drafting and study committees on topics including commercial financing disclosure, restrictive covenants in deeds, and electronic commerce.
The Uniform Law Commission, founded in 1892, is America’s foremost law reform group devoted to the improvement and uniformity of state law. The Commission reviews proposals for uniform acts, drafts them, and works toward their enactment by state legislatures. Commissioners are appointed by each state and serve without compensation.
“Here we are, from every branch of the legal profession and every corner of the nation, differing in politics and beliefs and dispositions, but united in our mission to improve the law,” Garvin said in his remarks to assembled Uniform Law Commissioners at their annual meeting. “In our increasingly polarized world, the Uniform Law Commission is a beacon of hope—proof that we can still rise above partisanship and, with mutual respect, do the work our nation so badly needs.”
Professor Garvin holds the Leon M. McCorkle Jr. Professorship in Commercial Law at Moritz. He teaches courses in contracts, sales and leases, small business, and entrepreneurial finance. His scholarship focuses on contracts and commercial law, especially using neo-classical and behavioral economics, and has appeared in journals such as the UCLA Law Review and the Wake Forest Law Review. Professor Garvin has also written several highly regarded books and treatises and is a member of the American Law Institute.