John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law

Ian Macneil, an international authority on contracts and arbitration, has participated in seminars and lectured extensively in this country and abroad. He coauthored the five-volume treatise Federal Arbitration Law: Agreements, Awards, and Remedies under the Federal Arbitration Act, selected as the best new legal book of 1995 by the American Association of Publishers.

EDUCATION: BA magna cum laude, University of Vermont; LLB magna cum laude, Harvard University

PAST APPOINTMENTS: Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law, 1976-80, professor of law, 1974-76, Cornell Law School; professor of law, Center for Advanced Studies member, University of Virginia, 1972-74; professor of law, associate professor of law, assistant professor of law, Cornell Law School, 1959-72; associate, Sulloway Hollis Godfrey & Soden, 1956-59; law clerk, Hon. Peter Woodbury, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1955-56

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Federal Arbitration Law: Agreements, Awards, and Remedies under the Federal Arbitration Act (with Speidel and Stipanowich), five vols., Little, Brown and Co.; American Arbitration Law: Reformation--Nationalization--Internationalization, Oxford University Press; The New Social Contract--An Inquiry into Modern Contractual Relations, Yale University Press

COURSES: Commercial Arbitration Seminar; Contracts