Education

B.A., 1964, J.D., 1966, the University of Texas;
LL.M., 1969, Harvard University 

Bio

David Epstein has been teaching at Southern Methodist University for more than four years. At the Dedman School of Law, he has taught business enterprises, contracts, creditors rights, property, sales and secured transactions. He has also taught "Baseballs, Body Parts and Rosa Parks" ,an interdisciplinary course that shows how economics, history, philosophy and sociology affect judicial and legislative approaches to 21st century property law problems, to Dedman College undergraduate students, and a course at the Perkins School of Theology on legal issues that a leader of a leader congregation might encounter, entitled "God and Caesar." He also works as of counsel to the law firm of Haynes and Boone.

Before moving to Dallas, Professor Epstein was a tenured law professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, the University of Texas Law School, and the University of Alabama Law School, dean at the University of Arkansas Law School and the Emory Law School, and a visiting professor at ten other law schools including Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, New York University and the University of Chicago. Professor Epstein also spent almost ten years as a partner in King & Spalding, an Atlanta-based law firm.

Primary Articles

With Jonathan Nockels (then a second year student at SMU), Recoupment: Apples, Oranges and Fruit Basket Turnover, 58 SMU L. Rev. 51 (2005) with Lisa Normand (then a third year student at SMU), Real World and Academic Questions About Nonmonetary Obligations Under BAPCPA 365, 13 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 617 (2005).

Books

Epstein, Freer, Roberts, and Shepherd's Business Structures, 2d Edition (American Casebook Series)(2007)

Epstein and Nickles' Principles of Bankruptcy Law (Concise Hornbook Series) (2007)

Epstein and Nickles' Bankruptcy Code and Related Source Materials for Law Students, 2007-2008 Edition

Epstein, Markell, Nickles, and Perris' Bankruptcy: 21st Century Debtor-Creditor Law, 2d Edition (American Casebook Series (2007)

Epstein, Markell and Ponoroff, Making and Doing Deals (LEXIS))2d ed)(2006).

Speeches/Presentations

During calendar year 2007, Professor Epstein gave lectures or speeches to judges, lawyers and/or law students on some "law" topic in the following cities: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlottesville, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. He also gave bar review lectures on contracts around the country; most of the people who have taken a bar exam in the last 25 years have heard this lecture.

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