Henry Deeb Gabriel is a professor of law at Elon University and the former DeVan Daggett Professor of Law at Loyola University-New Orleans. Professor Gabriel was the reporter for the revisions for Article 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code as well as the chair of the revision committee to revise Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code. As an appointed and lifetime member of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, he was on the drafting committees of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is an elected and life member of the American Law Institute, and he was Chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Committee on Sales Law from 1992-1996. Prof. Gabriel graduated with honors from Gonzaga University and received his LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as lead counsel in over fifty federal appeals before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals and was the Professor in Residence at the United States Department of Justice Appellate Staff in 1992. He has served as a delegate from the United States to the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law for over twenty years and served as an elected member of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT for twenty years. . He has twice been a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of Law and has taught or lectured on commercial law in over twenty countries. He is the author of over 100 books, book chapters and law review articles.
William H. Henning is the Executive Director of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. In addition, he serves as a Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He served as Chair of the Drafting Committee to Revise Uniform Commercial Code Article 2-Sales and also served on the Uniform Commercial Code Committee and the Committee on Scope and Program.
Professor Henning graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law and received his LL.M. from the University of Illinois College of Law. At the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, where he served for many years as the R.B. Price Professor of Law before taking emeritus status, Professor Henning was a three-time winner of the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award and the first member of the law faculty to be selected for a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He has published widely in the field of commercial law and, as a key player in the revision of Article 9, was a co-author of Matthew Bender's Understanding Secured Transactions.