Dale A. Whitman
Visiting Professor of Law
E-mail: dwhitman@wulaw.wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6409
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 463
Courses: (Fall 2007) Property & Real Estate Transactions
Profile
Education: He received his B.E.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1963 and his law degree from Duke University in 1966.
Dale Whitman is the former James Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Missouri in Columbia MO. He received his B.E.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1963 and his law degree from Duke University in 1966.
After practicing for a short period with the firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles, Professor Whitman began his academic career at the University of North Carolina in 1967. He was a member of the original faculty when the Brigham Young University law school was founded in 1973. He has since been a faculty member at the University of Washington (where he served as associate dean) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (where he served as dean from 1982 to 1988). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Tulsa, the University of Utah, and UCLA. Professor Whitman’s principal fields of interest are property and real estate finance.
He is a co-author of five books and numerous articles in these areas. During 1971-73 he was involved with the nation’s federal housing programs, serving in Washington DC with the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was co-reporter, with Professor Grant Nelson of UCLA, of the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Property (Mortgages), published in 1997. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools from 1994 through 1997, and was its president for the year 2002. Professor Whitman was the reporter for the Uniform Power of Sale Foreclosure Act, approved in August 2002 by the Commissioners on Uniform Laws. He currently serves as a member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts.
He is a member of the Order of the Coif, the American Law Institute, the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.