Claude D. Rohwer
Professor Emeritus
A.B., J.D., University of California, Berkeley
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Tel: 916.739.7361
Professor Rohwer recently retired after a record 44 years of service at Pacific McGeorge. He began his legal career in the U.S. Air Force with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Professor Rohwer was a state Deputy Attorney General for a year before joining the Sacramento firm of Downey, Brand in 1961. He left private practice in 1967 to become a full-time member of the McGeorge faculty when the school began its Day Division. He and Professor Anthony Skrocki co-authored the Contracts in a Nutshell, a popular source book for law students now in its sixth edition. Professor Rohwer was the Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs during the development of the LL.M. programs. He has taught commercial law in cities throughout the world, including London, Shanghai, St. Petersberg and Vienna. Since 1996, he has served as a consultant to the government of Vietnam writing and revising the Commercial Law and the Civil Code.
COURSE: Sales of Goods
Recent Publications: "Estoppel to Avoid the California Statute of Fraud" 35 McGeorge Law Review 319 (with Wile and Cordova-Lyon); "Enforcing Commercial Rights in Emerging Nations," 15 Transnat'l Law. 3 (2002), Contracts in a Nutshell (6th ed., West 2006) (with A. Skrocki)
Curriculum Vitae:
EDUCATION
Law
J.D., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1958
Undergraduate: A.B., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley - 1955
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
1961-present
Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
1982-86 and 2003-2005
Associate Dean, Graduate and International Programs, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
1965-67
Partner, Downey, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer
1961-64
Associate, Downey, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer
1960-61
Deputy Attorney General, State of California
1958-60
Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, United States Air Force
HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Honors:
Order of the Coif
Amicus Lex Scholar - 1982
University of the Pacific Professor of the Year, 1981
Memberships:
California Bar Association, Section on International Law
American Bar Association, Sections on Banking, Corporations and Business Law, and Legal Education
International Bar Association
PUBLICATIONS
Contracts in a Nutshell, 6th ed. (2006 West Publishing Co.), co-authored with Anthony M. Skrocki
"Estoppel to Avoid the California Statute of Fraud" 35 McGeorge L. Rev. 319 (with Wile and Cordova-Lyon)
"Enforcing Commercial Rights in Emerging Nations," 15 Transnat'l Law. 3 (2002)
Cases and Materials on Contracts, annually from 1989, co-authored with A.M. Skrocki (in-house publication)
"Progress and Problems in Vietnam's Development of Commercial Law," 15 Berkeley Journal of International Law 275 (1998)
"Equipment Leases - Warranty Rights and Remedies of Lessees," 21 Pacific Law Journal 1 (1989)
Commercial Agency, (Kluwer 1984), co-edited with Hans-Henrick Lidgard and Dennis Campbell
Cases and Materials on Agency, co-authored with Anthony M. Skrocki (in-house publication)
"Vienna Convention on International Sale of Goods and U.C.C. Compared: Peaceful Co-existence?," chapter in Legal Aspects of International Business Transactions (North Hollard Publishers 1984), co-authored with Jack J. Coe, Jr.
"Legal Aspects of International Business Transactions," (North Hollard Publishers 1983 and 1984), co-authored with Dennis Campbell
"Legal Education in the United States of America," chapter in Comparative Law Yearbook (Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1982), reprinted as "Legal Education," chapter in The U.S. Legal System (Martinum Nijhoff Publishers, 1983), co-authored with Dr. Robert A. Chaim
"American" chapter on International Business Law, co-authored with Donald R. Prinz, International Handbook on Comp. Bus. Law (1979)
"Terminable-at-Will Employment: New Theories for Job Security," Pacific Law Journal, April 1984
Contracts Chapter, Cal. Lawyer (1970)
"The Ivanhoe Decision: The Validity of Contracts Containing the 160 Acre Limitation," 45 Cal. Law Rev. 763 (Dec. 1957) (Student article)
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIONS, SPEECHES AND LECTURES
2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005
Consultant to Vietnamese Ministry of Justice (revising the Civil Code) and Ministry of Trade (rewriting the Commerical Law)
1999
Consultant to Engstrom & Ljungar Advokatbyra, KB, Ernst & Young, AB, Stockholm, Sweden
1998-99
Consultant to Schatvet, Johannessen & Svensson, Lillestrøm, Norway
1998
Consultant to Supreme Peoples' Court of Vietnam drafting revisions of 1989 Vietnamese Economic Contract Ordinance (United Nations Development Program project)
1997-98
Consultant to Vietnamese Ministry of Justice for implementation of new (1/1/98) Commercial Law of Vietnam (UNDP project)
1996
Consultant to Vietnamese Ministry of Trade drafting new Commercial Law (US Dept. of Commerce/USIA) and to Vietnamese Ministry of Justice drafting Regulations implementing the new (1 July 96) Vietnamese Civil Code (UNDP project)
1987
"The Law of Sales: International Law and US Law Compared," lecture series at Beijing Faculty of Law, Beijing, China
1984
"Commercial Agency, US Procedures and Problems,: welcoming address at Conference for Practitioners on Commercial Agency, conducted in Salzburg and Waidring, Austria (January - February 1984)
1979
Guest lecturer, University of Warsaw, Jagelloneon University (Krakow), and University of Bailystok, Poland, "Developments in Consumer Protection in the United States"
COURSES TAUGHT
US
Contracts; International Sale of Goods; Sales & Leasing; Remedies; Applied Remedies; Personal Property Financing; Commercial Paper; Agency; Business Associations; Labor Law
Overseas
1998: International Commercial Law (Salzburg, Austria)
1990: Comparative Commercial Law (London, England)
1987: American Contract Law (Shanghai, China)
1985: International Business Transactions (Edinburgh, Scotland)
1981: Comparative Commercial Law (Salzburg, Austria)
1974: International Commercial Law (Vienna, Austria)
