The senior member of the Penn State Law faculty, Professor Del Duca is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of commercial and comparative law and as a leader in the internationalization of American legal education. A member of the American Law Institute and the U.S. Secretary of State’s Committee on International Trade Law, Professor Del Duca also presently serves as president of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law and has been the United States’ collaborator to the Rome International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).

Not limiting the scope of his work to international matters, Professor Del Duca serves as editor of the Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal. A leader in the movement among U.S. law schools to increase international educational opportunities, Professor Del Duca founded and manages Penn State Law's summer programs in Europe. For his leadership in international education at Penn State, Professor Del Duca was awarded the W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award.
 

 

Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code and International Commerce, 2d ed. 2011 (with Marie T. Reilly et. al.)

“Achieving Optimal Use of Harmonization Techniques in an Increasingly Interrelated 21st Century World — Consumer Sales: Moving the EU Harmonization Process to a Global Plane,” 41 UCC L. J. 51 (with Albert Kritzer & Daniel Nagel, 2008).

“Global Issues in Contract Law,” 56 Am. J. Comp. L. 499 (2008; book review).

“Developing Global Transnational Harmonization Procedures for the Twenty-First Century: The Accelerating Pace of Common and Civil Law Convergence,” 42 Tex. Int’l L. J. 626 (2007).