St. John's University Law Faculty Blog

Professor G. Ray Warner served as a delegate of the International Insolvency Institute at the UNCITRAL Working Group VI meeting at the United Nations this past week (week of February 13th). Working Group VI is completing a model law of personal property security interests designed to harmonize national laws on the subject and encourage cross-border investment.

Professor Cheryl L. Wade will present The Foreclosure Follies, an original work written by

her, members of the law faculties at the University of British Columbia, and other Canadian jurists at the opening reception of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law in Montreal.

Professor Jeff Sovern was one of two guest speakers at a Ballard Spahr webinar on the presidential election’s impact on consumer financial services. Some 1300 people attended the program. More information is available here.

In addition, Politico’s Morning Money newsletter quoted Professor Sovern concerning § 1054(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The article is available here.

Professor Ray Warner will head two panels at the Conference on International Coordination of Secured Transactions Law Reforms held at the University of Pennsylvania on February 9 & 10.  Professor Warner’s panels will explore how the World Bank Group and regional development banks design and implement secured credit law reforms.