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Juliet M. Moringiello
Professor of Law

B.S., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
J.D., Fordham University School of Law
LL.M., Temple University School of Law

E-mail: jmmoringiello@widener.edu
Phone: 717.541.3917

Juliet M. Moringiello is Professor of Law on Widener's Harrisburg Campus.

Professor Moringiello is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S., 1984) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1987), where she was a staff member of the Fordham International Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Professor Moringiello joined Emmet, Marvin & Martin in New York, New York, where she specialized in real estate and asset-based financing. From 1991 to 1993, Professor Moringiello was a Graduate Fellow in Legal Education at Temple University School of Law, from which she received her LL.M. in 1993. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Pennsylvania.

Professor Moringiello teaches Property, Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, Payment Systems, the Law of Electronic Commerce and Sales. She has taught as a visiting professor at Loyola University Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Maryland, the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University and the Universite de Paris X in Nanterre, France.

Professor Moringiello is an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Section and the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). In the ABA, she is a member of the Editorial Boards of The Business Lawyer and Business Law Today and is editor of The Business Lawyer's annual survey of Cyberspace Law. She is currently the co-chair of the International Coordinating Committee of the ABA Business Law Section. During the 2003-2004 academic year, Professor Moringiello was Chair of the AALS Section of Commercial and Related Consumer Law.

Professor Moringiello is involved in a number of law reform activities. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and is Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Uniform Commercial Code Task Force. In 2007, the Pennsylvania Bar Association honored Professor Moringiello with a Special Achievement Award for her work in the Uniform Commercial Code enactment process.

Professor Moringiello writes in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial law and electronic commerce, and was honored by the Law School for this work with the 2006 Douglas E. Ray Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award. She is a frequent speaker on those topics and has given presentations at the Annual Meetings of the ABA and AALS, the annual forum of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference, and at programs presented by the Delaware State Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Professor Moringiello can be reached at e-mail address:jmmoringiello@widener.edu.

Selected Recent Publications
  • "False Categories in Commercial Law: The (Ir)Relevance of (In)Tangibility," 35 Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2007) & William L. Reynolds, "Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2005-2006," 62 The Business Lawyer 195 (2006)
  • Has Congress Slimmed Down the Hogs?: A Look at the BAPCPA Approach to Pre-Bankruptcy Planning, 15 Widener L. J. 615 (symposium) (2006).
  • Signals, Assent and Internet Contracting, 57 Rutgers L. Rev. 1307 (2005).
  • & William L. Reynolds, Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Internet Contracting Cases 2004-2005, 61 Bus. Law. 433 (2005).
  • Seizing Domain Names to Enforce Judgments: Looking Back to Look to the Future, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 95 (2003).