Professor of Law
Tel: 214-768-3132
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Email:
depstein@mail.smu.edu
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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
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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).
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Books
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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).
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Speeches/Presentations
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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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Curriculum Vitae
Education
B.A., 1964, J.D., 1966, the University of Texas;
LL.M., 1969, Harvard University
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