About the Authors

• Author: Franklin G. Snyder, Mark Edwin Burge
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About the Authors

Franklin G. Snyder is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law,

where he has taught Contracts and Business Associations since 2000. He also has

taught as a visiting professor at the law schools at Notre Dame, Temple University,

and the University of Idaho. Prior to entering teaching, he was a partner in the

Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and clerked on the U.S. Court of

Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Professor Snyder is the founder of the annual

International Conference on Contracts, now in its thirteenth year, and Co-Founder

and Editor Emeritus of the ContractsProf blog. He is one of the co-revisers of the new

edition of the popular White & Summers UCC Hornbook series by West Academic,

the first volume of which, Principles of Sales Law (2d ed.), was published in 2017. He

is also co-editor of the book, Harry Potter and the Law.

Mark Edwin Burge is Professor of Law and Director of San Antonio Programs at

Texas A&M University School of Law, where he teaches Contracts, Payment

Systems, and practice skills courses, including Contract Drafting. His scholarship

focuses on commercial law, emerging payment systems, and legal pedagogy. Prior to

entering teaching in 2005, he practiced in the area of business and commercial

litigation and related transactions, including representation of financial institutions

victimized by kiting and other negotiable instrument fraud schemes. Burge is a

Contributing Editor to ContractsProf Blog, President of the Central States Law

Schools Association (2017-2018), and a member of the Legal Writing Institute.