Whitmore Gray

Whitmore Gray is an American lawyer, law professor, and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan Law School. Gray is an expert in the fields of contract, Asian legal systems, comparative commercial law, alternative dispute resolution, and international arbitration of commercial disputes.
Career
Gray received his A.B. from Principia College in 1954 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1957.<ref name="Fordham"/> Gray joined the Michigan law school faculty in 1960.<ref name="Bio"/> Gray initially taught contracts, restitution, and European and Soviet legal systems before shifting his focus to and Japanese law.<ref name="Bio"/>
He translated the Russian Civil Code in 1964 and the General Principles of the Civil Law of the People's Republic of China in 1988.<ref name="Fordham"/> Gray was a Japan Foundation fellow at the University of Tokyo from 1977 to 1978, and a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo from 1981 to 1982 and again from 1984 to 1985.<ref name="Fordham"/> Gray lectured in the Summer Program in American Law at Jilin University in China in 1985.<ref name="Fordham"/> He was of counsel to the New York law firms of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in 1981 and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae from 1994 to 2000.<ref name="Fordham"/> Gray has been a lecturer at The Center for American and International Law (formerly the Southwest Legal Foundation) since 1980.<ref name="Fordham"/> He received an LL.D. from Adrian College in 1983.<ref name="Fordham"/> Gray has taught U.S. contract law to Chinese students at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China.<ref name="Bio"/>
Gray has served as a consultant on law reform in Indonesia for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in Cambodia for the American Bar Association, and in Argentina for the World Bank.<ref name="Fordham"/>
Gray is visiting professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and has regularly taught there for 20 years.<ref name="Bio"/><ref name="Fordham"/>

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