UA Law Professor To Teach At Harvard

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A University of Alabama law professor has been invited to teach at Harvard Law School next year.

David G. Epstein, holder of the Charles E. Tweedy Jr. Chair of Law at UA, will be a visiting professor at Harvard in the spring of 2002. Epstein is the first UA law professor ever to teach at Harvard as a visitor. During his appointment, he will hold the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professorship of Law in recognition of “(his) scholarly contribution to commercial law and (his) standing in the field.”

Epstein, who earned a graduate degree in law from Harvard in 1969, notes that he will be teaching the same courses in 2002 that he took at Harvard more than 30 years ago.

Epstein joined the UA faculty in 1998. His extensive teaching career includes positions at the University of North Carolina, the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, Washington University, the University of Illinois and Brigham Young University. He served as dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law from 1979-1982 and as dean of Emory University School of Law from 1985-1989.

He is a co-author of “Bankruptcy,” a three-volume treatise for judges and lawyers; a co-author of three law school textbooks on bankruptcy, commercial law and business reorganization; and author of “Bankruptcy and Other Debtor-Creditor Laws in a Nutshell.” At UA, he teaches contracts, bankruptcy and other business classes.

The UA School of Law has been ranked 46th in the nation in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of graduate schools for the last two years.