Awards
Following are various awards given by the ACCFL to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of commercial finance law. Please click on the links below for more information about a particular award.
Grant Gilmore Award
Grant Gilmore was co-Reporter for original Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. He authored the classic treatise on secured transactions. He taught at Yale and Columbia Law Schools, among others. Article 9 of the UCC, of course, has become the legal profession's most successful uniform law contribution to American commercial law. Appropriately named in Professor Gilmore’s honor, this award is given when the College identifies a superior writing in the field of Commercial Finance, including Uniform Commercial Code, Bankruptcy and other related topics.
Past recipients of the Grant Gilmore Award
1992
Kerry Lynn McIntosh
Professor
Santa Clara University
1993
R. Wilson Freyermuth
Associate Professor
University of Missouri-Columbia
1996
Steve Sepinuck
Associate Professor
Gonzaga University School of Law
1998
Ronald J. Mann
Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Marshall E. Tracht
Associate Professor
Hofstra University School of Law
2000
Lisa E. Bernstein
Professor
University of Chicago Law School
2002
Thomas E. Plank
Professor
University of Tennessee College of Law
2008
Kenneth C. Kettering
Professor
New York Law School
Homer Kripke Achievement Award
Prior to becoming the Chester Rohrlich Professor of Corporate Law, Finance and Taxation at New York University School of Law, Homer Kripke served as Assistant General Counsel at The CIT Group, Inc. for 17 years. An expert in secured transactions, Professor Kripke also mastered securities law and accounting, in addition to being President of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, Inc. from 1963 to 1965, and lecturing regularly on the Uniform Commercial Code. Having contributed to the development of American commercial jurisprudence throughout his entire adult life, the College has deemed it particularly fitting that our lifetime achievement award be named in Professor Kripke’s honor.
This award is given when the College identifies a teacher or practitioner—often one who has been both—who has made an outstanding contribution, throughout his or her career, to the law as it relates to Commercial Finance.
Past recipients of the Homer Kripke Achievement Award
1992
Homer Kripke
Professor
1993
William B. Davenport
1996
Howard Ruda
Hahn & Hessen LLP
1997
William D. Hawkland
Chancellor
1998
A. Bruce Schimberg
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
1999
Donald J. Rapson
Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School
2001
Donald Lee Rome
2002
James J. White
University of Michigan Law School
2005
Harry C. Sigman
Law Offices of Harry C. Sigman P.C.
Special Service Award
The development and enactment of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code was a landmark achievement in Commercial Finance. Revised Article 9 became effective in almost all states on July 1, 2001, and is currently effective in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. This major update to the most significant law ever to affect secured lending was drafted by a Committee chaired by William M. Burke, Esquire. Co-Reporters Steven L. Harris and Charles W. Mooney, Jr. were aided by Steven O. Weise, Esquire, the American Bar Association advisor to the Committee. Following enactment, these lawyers continued their efforts toward the successful enactment of the law.
The ACCFL Special Service Award was given in 2002 for Distinguished Service in the Development and Nationwide Enactment of Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code to the following recipients.
2002
William M. Burke
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Steven L. Harris
Chicago-Kent School of Law
Charles W. Mooney, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Steven O. Weise
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP
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