Whitmore Gray is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and currently is Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City. He often serves as an international commercial arbitrator, and as a consultant on international contract and arbitration matters.
Professor Gray is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review (1956-1957). He studied law in Paris and Munich, and has worked in New York City law firms for eight years. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, Muenster, Tubingen, Kyoto, Mexico City, Tokyo and Changchun, China. He serves on the boards of editors of Soviet Law and Government, the South African Journal of Comparative Law and the Index to East European Law. He is a full member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Professor Gray has served as a law-reform consultant for commercial contract law or for arbitration and dispute resolution law in several instances: Argentina (for the World Bank) in 1994; Cambodia (for the American Bar Association) in 1994; Thailand (for the Ministry of Justice Arbitration Center) in 1991-1993; and Indonesia (for ELIPS) in 1994-1996. He has just returned from teaching a course on Cross-Border Contracts at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
