Associate Professor
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Harvard Law School
E-mail:
sfriedman@widener.edu Phone: 302.477.2291
Stephen E. Friedman is an Associate Professor of Law at Widener's Delaware Campus. Professor Friedman received a B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1989, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1992.
Following graduation from law school, Professor Friedman was an associate on the trial team of the Philadelphia law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads. Professor Friedman joined the Widener faculty in 1998 and teaches Contracts, Sales & Leases, Arbitration, and Secured Transactions.Professor Friedman is a co-chair of the ABA Business Law Section Annual Survey Subcommittee (Uniform Commercial Code) as well as co-editor of the Business Law Section’s Annual Uniform Commercial Code Survey. He is also a volunteer literacy tutor with the Delaware County Literacy Council.
Selected Recent Publications Articles
- A Pro-Congress Approach to Arbitration and Unconscionability, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY ___ (2011) (forthcoming)
- Arbitration Provisions: Little Darlings and Little Monsters, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 2035 (2011)
- Giving Unconscionability More Muscle: Attorneys' Fees as a Remedy for Contractual Overreaching, 44 Ga. L. Rev. 317 (2010)
- Protecting Consumers from Arbitration Provisions in Cyberspace, the Federal Arbitration Act and E-SIGN Notwithstanding, 57 Cath. U. L. Rev. 377 (2008).
- Improving the Rolling Contract, 56 AM. U. L. REV. 1 (2006).
- Text and Circumstance: Warranty Disclaimers in a World of Rolling Contracts, 46 Ariz. L. Rev. 677 (2004).