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Faculty Profile
William E. Boyd
Chester Smith Professor Emeritus of Law
E-mail:
William E. Boyd
Office Number: 208
Office Phone: (520) 621-3570
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140
Courses Taught:
Cyberlaw 
Secured Transactions (UCC)
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Education |
Stanford University, Law and Computer Fellow (1971) |
Harvard University, LL.M. (1967) |
Wayne State University, J.D. (1966) Editor-in-Chief, Wayne Law Review |
University of Michigan, A.B. (1963) |
Admitted to Practice |
Arizona |
Michigan |
Federal District Court of Arizona |
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals |
Professional Work Experience |
Senior Lecturer in Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, 1998 - present |
Consultant, National Law Center for Inter-American Trade (Computerizing credit financing in connection with NAFTA), 1992 - present |
Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law, 1972 - 1998 |
Consultant, Electronic Courts Project, Federal Judicial Conference, 1998 |
Special Advisor to the Vice Provost for Information Technology, University of Arizona (one-half time Law College and one-half time Center for Computing and Information Technology (CCIT)), 1994 - 1995 |
Consultant, St. Petersburg University Law School, St. Petersburg, Russia (Rule of Law Consortium/ARD-Checci, Washington, D.C.), 1994 |
Director of Computer Development, University of Arizona (one-half time academic and one-half-time administrative), 1988 - 1994 |
Consultant, Indian Management Association Self-Determination Communications Network, 1991 |
Consultant, Louisiana State Board of Regents Law and Technology Center Project, 1987 - 1988 |
Visiting Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Summer 1987 |
Consultant, Arid Land Studies -- Kellogg Foundation funded project (Development of Commercial Codes for Adoption by Indian Tribes looking to self-determination), 1981 - 1987 |
Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, Spring 1980 - 1981 |
Visiting Professor, Wayne State University, Fall 1979 - 1980 |
Faculty Member, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Institute, Southwest Regional, 1979 |
Director, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), Southwest Regional, 1972 |
Special Master, Navajo Tribe, 1969 |
Clerk and Special Administrative Assistant, The Honorable Kenneth OConnell, Oregon Supreme Court, 1968 |
Associate, Fischer, Sprague, Franklin, and Ford, Detroit, Michigan, 1966 |
Presentations
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Presenter, Tricks and Traps: UCC Article 9 Revisions (Ariz. State Bar CLE Program, Tucson, Ariz., Mar. 2002).
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Presenter, CyberBankruptcy and Secured Lending in Cyberspace (Back to School CLE, James E. Rogers College of Law, Nov. 2001). [Presentation slides available at <http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/boyd/cyberbankruptcybullets.pps>.]
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Presenter, Revised Article 9 (Ariz. State Bar CLE Program, Phoenix & Tucson, Ariz., Mar. 2001).
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Organizations |
Chair, American Association of Law Schools, Law and Computer Section 1992 - 1993 |
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Member, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) 1988 - present |
| President, January 1998 - January 2002 |
Public Service |
Invited Participant, Conference on Electronic Courtrooms (Federal Judicial Center, Washington, D.C.) September, 2000 |
Member, Federal District Court Automated Practice Committee 1989 |
Referee, National Science Foundation Consumer Bankruptcy Proposal 1989 |
Member, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Nominating Committee 1989 |
Member, Board of Directors, Tohono O'odom Legal Services 1985 - 1987 |
Institutional Service |
Member, University of Arizona Information Technology Council & Chair of the Subcommittee on Universal Access and Student Computing 1994 - 1998 |
Member, AT&T/ Lucent Technologies Planning Team (leading to the University of Arizona/Lucent Technologies Alliance) 1995 |
Member, University of Arizona Business Process Re-engineering Team 1994 - 1995 |
Member, University of Arizona Information Technology Planning Team 1993 - 1994 |
Chair, University of Arizona President's Advisory Committee on Instructional Computing 1992 - 1993 |
Member, University of Arizona Presidents Indian Advisory Committee 1982 - 1987 |
Awards |
| Recipient, Major Grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research to support a sabbatical project entitled "New Frontiers in Instructional Software" 1992 |
Updated:
04/23/2013
