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Robert Jay Nye

 

Robert Jay Nye
Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.987.1437
E-mail: 7nye@jmls.edu

AB, University of Chicago
JD, cum laude, DePaul University
LLM, New York University

 


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Early in his career, Robert Nye served as a research fellow at the Institute of Judicial Administration in New York City and as a W.W. Cook Fellow at the University of Michigan School of Law. He also was a trial and appellate attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor in New England and Washington, D.C., and senior law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Professor Nye was in private practice before joining the John Marshall faculty. He has lectured and taught in the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Russia, and Australia. He is co-author of two casebooks: Contract Law and Practice (Anderson Publishing Co.), and Business Franchise Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press).

Professor Nye represents John Marshall on the steering committee of the Chicago Consortium for Higher Education, has chaired the CBA Committee on Science and Technology and the ISBA Committee on Legal Education, and has served the Illinois Judicial Conference in the areas of chancery and miscellaneous remedies, probate, and family law.

Professor Nye joined the faculty in 1962. He coordinates John Marshall's recently-established Office for Videoconference and Distance Education Programs and teaches Agency and Unincorporated Business Entities, Business Franchise Law, Business Franchise Law & Practice, International Business Franchise Law, Contracts, Illinois Civil Procedure, Secured Transactions, and Remedies.

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Publications

Contract Law and Practice: Teacher's Manual (With Professors Gerald Berendt, Rebecca Cochran, Doris Long and John Scheid), LexisNexis Publishing Co., 2009 (forthcoming).

Illinois Civil Law Developments: Selected Illinois Supreme Court Cases and Statutes 2006-2007, Judicial Education Conference Reading and Reference Manual, 2008.

Contract Law and Practice (With Professors Gerald Berendt, Rebecca Cochran, Doris Long and John Scheid) (2d ed.),  LexisNexis Publishing Co., 2007.

Illinois Civil Law Updates and Hot Topics: Illinois Civil Law Developments 2006/2007 and Illinois Civil Law Developments: Selected Supreme Court Cases and Statutes 2006-2007, Judicial Education Conference Reading and Reference Manual, 2007.

Illinois Civil Law Developments, Judicial Education Conference Reading and Reference Manual, 2006.

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Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Illinois State Bar Association

Chicago Bar Association

American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Federal Bar Association (former)

Bar Association of the Seventh Federal Circuit (former)

Decalogue Society of Lawyers (former)

American Trial Lawyers Association (faculty member)

Lawyers for the Creative Arts (former)

Federal Defender Panel of Attorneys, U.S. District Court, Northern District, Illinois (former)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated On: 7/14/09
 

 


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