Henry Gabriel

Henry Gabriel is a Professor of Law at Elon University and formerly the DeVan Daggett Professor of Law at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is in his fourth five-year term as a member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council and he is a member of the UNIDROIT Permanent Committee. He was member of the Working Group and Chair of the Editorial Board of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, and Chaired the UNIDROIT Working Group on the Legal Guide to Contract Farming and is currently chairing the UNIDROIT Model Law on Factoring He has served as United States delegate to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law for seventeen years working with both the Working Group on Electronic Commerce as well as the Working Group on Transport Law. He is an elected and life member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the European Law Institute, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a life member of the American Uniform Law Commission. He was the reporter for the revision of the Sales and Leases Articles of the American Uniform Commercial Code and the Chair of the Revisions of the Uniform Commercial Code Article on Documents of Title. He is the author of ten books and over 60 articles.