John Linarelli

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of La Verne College of Law.

Author of:

Analytical Jurisprudence and the Concept of Commercial Law.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 119.

From the Author:

1 I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Jan Dalhuisen, King’s College University of London, for his encouragement throughout the years as I struggle to work out my own understanding of commercial law in ways that might be considered unusual by some.  Jan and I do not agree on everything but we do agree on the important things.  Thanks Jan.  I presented this article at a Northeastern University School of Law colloquium on October 23, 2008 while a visiting professor at Northeastern for academic year 2008-09.  I thank the colloquium participants who asked many good and tough questions, all of which helped me improve the article.  In particular I thank James Hackney, the discussant in the Colloquium, for his excellent comments.  I also want to thank H. Randall Rubin, former Interim Dean at La Verne, for a summer research stipend in support of the preparation of this work.  Finally, a special thanks to Sofia Ahmed, my research assistant at La Verne, for her excellent work. All errors are mine.