Curtis R. Reitz

Curtis Randall Reitz (November 20, 1929 – April 2, 2025) was the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Biography Reitz was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Reitz has represented Pennsylvania for 25 years in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and was chair of the Conference's Committee on International Legal Developments. He also participated in the revision of the Uniform Commercial Code. His later work has focused on international commercial law, including aspects of the World Trade Organization's operations.

Selected publications Cases and Materials on International Regulation of Trade and Investment (2006) Sales and Transactions: Domestic and International Law (3d ed. 2006) The Law of Sales and Secured Financing (with John Honnold, Steven L. Harris, and Charles W. Mooney Jr.) (7th ed. 2002) Cases, Problems and Materials on Sales Transactions: Domestic and International Law (with John Honnold) (1992) Construction Lenders' Liability to Contractors, Subcontractors, and Materialmen, in Construction Litigation (K. Cushman, Ed. 1981) Federal Habeas Corpus: Impact of an Abortive State Proceeding, 74 Harv. L. Rev. 1315 (1961)