Before joining the William and Mary faculty, Professor Alces practiced law in Chicago and taught at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Washington University and

University of Texas law schools and is a member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Alces joined the William and Mary faculty in 1991. Professor Alces received his A.B. from Lafayette College and his J.D. from the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Law of Suretyship and Guaranty; Bankruptcy: Cases and Materials; Cases, Problems and Materials on Payment Systems: The Commercial Law of Intellectual Property; Sales, Leases and Bulk Transfers; and The Law of Fraudulent Transactions and Uniform Commercial Code Transactions Guide.

Amelia Boss is Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law, where she teaches in the commercial law, bankruptcy and electronic commerce areas. She is a member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code, and the former chair of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the American Bar Association. She serves as the American Law Institute member of the Drafting Committee to revise Article 2 of the UCC on sales, of the Drafting Committee on the new Article 2B on licensing of software, and of the Drafting Committee to revise Article 1 on general provisions. In the past, she served as an advisor/observer to the revisions on Article 5 (letters of credit) and Article 8 (investment securities). She is a member of the American Law Institute, and served on the Members Consultative Group on the Restatement of the Law of Suretyship. Professor Boss is the incoming Vice-Chair of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association.

Professor Boss is an expert in the emerging area of electronic commerce and electronic commercial practices. She was one of the drafters of the American Bar Association's report and model agreement on electronic data interchange. Her book, Electronic Data Interchange Agreements: A Guide and Sourcebook, was published by the International Chamber of Commerce. She currently serves as an advisor and as the United States Delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) on issues relating to electronic commerce.

She is Editor-in-Chief of The DataLaw Report (published bi-monthly by Clark Boardman Callaghan), and is on the editorial board of The EDI Law Review and the Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Policy. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Volume 54 of The Business Lawyer. During the Spring of 1998, Professor Boss will be the Leo Goodwin Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Nova University School of Law.

Professor Boss is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers Camden Law School.

Peter F. Harter

Currently, Peter is actively engaged in modernizing government controls on encryption technology in the US and overseas, copyright issues, privacy, and competition. Peter regularly supports Netscape's technical standards activities as well as its education technology marketing and community relations efforts. Other issues of concern include telecommunications, interoperability, domain name management, Internet governance, infrastructure expansion, and content control.

Peter's work encompasses local, state, national, and international activities. He regularly works with executive, legislative and industry officials in the US government as well as Canada, UK, France, Germany, the European Commission, Australia, Japan, and various UN chartered organizations in Geneva.

In March of 1995, prior to joining Netscape, Peter garnered interest from others in industry to start forming a legal analog to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): the Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF). Today the ILPF has organized into an ad hoc body of over twenty companies focusing their efforts on developing open draft legal standards for a variety of Internet law issues.

Peter graduated from Villanova Law School (J.D.) in 1993 and from Lehigh University (B.A. Rhetoric and Government) in 1990. Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Peter now resides in San Francisco, California.

Holly also participates in the firm's intellectual property practice group. The resulting blend of Holly's financial institutions background and intellectual property principles, has created Holly's current practice focus, electronic commerce. She speaks nationally and internationally on electronic commerce, licensing and online services. She advises clients regarding legal aspects of electronic commerce and the application of all articles of the UCC. Additionally, Holly serves as chair of two Washington State Bar Association groups, the Business Section's Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace, and the subcommittee on Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.