James P. Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than thirty years. He is an internationally recognized expert in secured transactions, consumer privacy, and consumer financial services law. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series. Professor Nehf was the inaugural director of the law school's European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the law school and as director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. Professor Nehf’s publications include a leading multi-volume commercial law treatise, Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code (principal author and editor), an updated and revised edition of Corbin on Contracts—The Impossibility Doctrine, a book on privacy law, Open Book: The Failed Promise of Information Privacy in America, and numerous book chapters and articles on commercial law, consumer finance, privacy law, low-income consumer transactions, and international/comparative law subjects. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Markets and Law Series at Ashgate Publishing. Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he worked as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. Professor Nehf has also taught as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, Mercer University, and the University of Georgia.

For any inquiries about the IACL, please get in touch with Professor Nehf through his assistant, Andressa Monteiro Viefhaus at iaclconsumer@gmail.com