David g. epstein biography
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Definitions: In these Terms and Conditions "Campaign Organizers" means those raising funds, and "Campaigns" as their fundr American law professor David Gustav Epstein is the George E. Allen Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law and an expert on bankruptcy. Epstein was raised in Texas by a Jewish family. Epstein received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1964, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1966, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1969. While a student at UT, he became a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He was also a clerk for the Texas Supreme Court. For twenty-five years, Epstein has been the primary Barbri lecturer on the topic of contracts, and his lectures have thus been viewed by upwards of a million students. He has coauthored textbooks on bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, and corporations. In 2004, the Commercial Law League of America honored him with their Lawrence P. King Award for Excellence in the Field of Bankruptcy. Epstein has taught at numerous schools and has been the Dean of two of them, the University of Arkansas School of Law and the Emory University School of Law. He has been a tenured law professor at Southern Methodist University, the University of North Carolina Law School, and the University of Texas Law School, the Charles E. Tweedy Jr. Chair of Law at the University of Alabama Law School, and a visiting professor at Harvard, as well as Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Michigan Law School, the New York University Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. In 2006, he became Of Counsel to the law firm of Haynes and Boone, working out of their office in Dallas, Texas, one day a week. Obtained Degree from: Columba, BA (scl) 1963; PhD 1969; UCLA JD 1978 Name of Spouse: Nancy Reeder Names and colleges attended of children: Daniel, Bard; Daniela, Berkeley, U of Texas El Paso, U of Houston; Zoë and Katharine, still in High School Careers: anthropology professor; lawyer; local politician Community Activities: City Councilman, Santa Monica Six-word description of my last 50 years: folly, joy, love, loss, curiosity, mercy. Here’s the essay, a poor thing but mine own: I arrived at Andover, young, small, and a provincial Manhattanite. I learned a few things: *There were more varieties of boys and men than had ever existed in my imagination: rich, poor, idealistic, cynical, vegetarian, carnivorous--you name it. *There were intelligent people who actually practiced religion, which carried certain satisfactions with it. *Nature, even domesticated nature as in the Bird Sanctuary, held more pleasure than did asphalt and concrete. *The world included armillary spheres, bell towers, and bird sanctuaries. *If I liked Mystery Mounds and creamed chipped beef, I could easily cadge four helpings from those who didn’t. *A stainless steel knife, skillfully handled, can project a pat of butter at least thirty feet. *An eight-oared fiberglass shell, with me at the rudder, launched just upstream from a dam on the Merrimack River, would not inexorably be swept to oblivion. *I suffer from what later came to be called Seasonal Affective Disorder (my mother, a dress designer, figured it out before the docs). All of this, and academics, too. At academics I was a natural, at least grade and test-wise, if not when it came to depth, but with people not so much, until my foray into local politics in the ‘80s. As for athletics, until I took up cycling in my fifties, fuggedabadit. Perhaps my experience of living partly in my own New York world and partly in the very different Andover world made me curious about ho .David G. Epstein
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